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Volcano Threat in Java & Alaska

Date released

23 Jul 1953

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1259A

NoS ID

018644

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Volcano Threat in Java & Alaska. DESCRIPTION: In Central Java, a mountain threatens to erupt, and scientists have been trying to estimate the degree of violence likely to occur. Eighty...

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Wayang Golek in the World of Man: Puppetry and Dance in West Java (1973 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 34 min.

About West Javanese (Sundanese) rod puppets, Wayang Golek, and the relationship between puppetry and classical Sundanese human dance. Gives an introduction to the Sunda area and its people, shows fragments...

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Wayang Golek: Performing Arts of Sunda (West Java) (1999 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 42 minutes), £34.99

Wayang Golek is the rod-puppet theatre tradition of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which comprises a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs and instumental music. The programme introduces the Wayang Golek...

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Rebels of the Forgotten World (1991 Video)

Director

Alan Hayling; Claudio von Planta

Subject

Anthropology; Politics & government

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min.

Reports from the jungle of West Papua, the western half of New Guinea known as Irian Jaya to Indonesians, about armed tribal opposition to Indonesia’s military occupation. Indonesia, with World Bank...

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Sundanese Culture Alive (1988 Video)

aka: Sundanese Popular Culture Alive

Director

Jean Hellwig

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...

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Indonesian Governors At Corby Steelworks

Date released

Oct 1972

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

125

NoS ID

328114

Story no

2 / 6

COI synopsis: His Excellency Governor Noer from East Java and His Excellency Governor Zair from West Sumatra visiting the British Steel Corporation’s pipe-making plant at Corby.

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Breaking the Chains (2015)

Director

Erminia Colucci

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and almost...

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