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  1. Secrets of Nature Pioneering Natural History Films, 1922 - 1933 (2010)

    Director
    Percy Smith; Mary Field
    Subject
    Biology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

    A digitally remastered collection of 19 British films made between 1922 and 1933 that used groundbreaking techniques to share the secrets of the natural world with cinema audiences. The pioneering series...

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  2. David Attenborough: Perception, Deception and Reality (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies; Science

    A recording of the Michael Faraday Lecture delivered by David Attenborough at the Royal Society on 28 January 2004. Once, technical inadequacies led natural history film-makers to distort events or even...

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  3. Surrealism and Science: The Weird World of Jean PainlevÉ (1995 Video)

    Director
    Jean Painlevé
    Subject
    Biology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 95 min.

    A compilation of nine short films relating to surrealism and science made by Jean Painlevé between 1926 and 1976. Trained as a biologist, Painlevé made nearly 200 scientific films, but he soon became...

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  4. Origins of Scientific Cinematography, The (1994)

    Director
    Hans-Karl Galle; Virgilio Tosi
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £49.99

    A DVD of the 3-volume video set produced during 1990-1993 to illustrate the book of the same title by Virgilio Tosi. Part 1: A compilation of documentary film sequences arranged chronologically in six...

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  5. Eadweard Muybridge Zoopraxographer (1974 Film)

    Director
    Thomas Andersen
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the work Eadweard Muybridge, who made the first photographic motion pictures, 15 years before Lumiere’s first films. Narrated by Dean Stockwell.

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  6. Making of a Natural History Film, The (1972 Video)

    Producer
    Mick Rhodes
    Subject
    Biology; Film & television production
    Distribution
    Videocassette. U-matic. col. 50 min.

    The techniques of making a natural history film, showing the Oxford Scientific Films at work.

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  7. Stories Behind the Lens: Bill Wallauer

    Subject
    Biology

    In this video podcast, Bill Wallauer discusses his work with the Jane Goodall Institute, where he has spent fifteen years filming and helping to save the wild chimpanzees of Tanzania’s Gombe National Park....

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