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  1. American Supermarket (6 Parts) (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Davide Ferrario
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution

    Industrial films, old commercials, documentaries, educational films, and army training films are used humourously to portray the American dream of the 1940s and 1950s. Shows the mass culture of a period that...

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  2. Ben Nicholson (1985)

    Director
    John Read
    Producer
    Ann Balfour Fraser
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 53 minutes), £14.95

    After Ben Nicholson’s discovery of pure abstraction in the 1920s, leading to his famous white reliefs,he re-introduced figurative elements into his paintings throughout his life. A recurring motif was a...

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  3. Buildings - Who Cares? (1985 Video)

    Director
    David Thompson
    Producer
    Ann Balfour Fraser
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min.

    Many options exist between the instinct to create new buildings and to preserve existing ones. This film, developed from an original idea by architect Donald Insali, examines the implications on three...

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  4. Keith Vaughan (1984 Video)

    Director
    John Bulmer
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

    Traces Keith Vaughan’s life and art from his public school days and the war years, to teaching in London art schools, and the final period of self-imposed withdrawal before his suicide at 65. The film’s...

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  5. Coal: The Bridge (1983 Video)

    Director
    Peter de Normanville
    Producer
    Douglas Gordon
    Subject
    Environmental science; Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Demonstrates the origin and qualities of coal - its efficiency, versatility and abundance. Argues that coal could become the bridge between the age of oil and the new energy sources of the 21st century....

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  6. Act Without Words (1983 Video)

    Director
    Margaret Jordan
    Producer
    Robin Browne
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min., 1995 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Film version of Beckett’s puppet play ‘Act without Words’. ‘A puppet finds a palm tree and sits in the shade, but the tree closes its fronds, leaving him in the hot sun. There is a carafe of water,...

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  7. Rubens and England (1975 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Bigham
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at Rubens’ career in England, and in particular at the recently restored eight-panel ceiling of the Whitehall Banqueting House commissioned by Charles I in 1629, and examines the meanings that the...

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  8. Women of the Toubou (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Anne Balfour-Fraser
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the way of life of the Toubou, a nomadic tribe living in the Sahara desert. Looks in particular at the role of women in the tribe.

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  9. Leprosy 1 (1974 Film)

    Producer
    R J W Rees
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Traces the history and medical treatment of leprosy. *BMA/BLAT

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  10. Mantegna: The Triumph of Caesar (1973)

    Director
    Dudley Shaw Ashton
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes), £50.00

    An account partly descriptive, partly historical account of the eight extant canvases of The Triumph of Caesar which Andrea Mantegna was commissioned to paint in 1484 by Ludovico II, Marquis of Mantua.

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