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  1. Body, The (2013)

    Director
    Roy Battersby
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £9.99

    This 1970 documentary uses microphotography and other innovative techniques, including the use of internal cameras, to explore the human life-cycle from birth and early adolescence, to old-age and death....

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  2. Longitude (2000 Video)

    Director
    Charles Sturridge
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 198 minutes), £12.99

    Adaptation of the Daba Sobel book telling the story of 18th-century clockmaker John Harrison’s attempts to build a chronometer, and the parallel story of Rupert Gould, who in the late 19th century...

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  3. Gallium Arsenide: Pulled from Obscurity (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Kevin Newport
    Subject
    Design; Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Traces the role of inventor, product champion and commercial developer, using as a case study the ‘high pressure crystal puller’. This machine enabled the development of gallium arsenide wafers on which...

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  4. Innovation on the Rails (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Kevin Newport
    Subject
    Design; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The process of researching and developing fast trains takes time; the idea for the Advanced Passenger Train came 20 years ago. Yet business needs are changing all the time. Shot on location in Derby, and on...

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  5. Marketing the Micro (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Kevin Newport
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence OUT OF DISTRIBUTION Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Discusses the process of translating ideas into market products. The theory gives two generalised processes: ‘technology push’ and ‘market pull’. Two case studies demonstrate the theory: Atari...

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  6. Power to the People? (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Kevin Newport
    Subject
    Design; Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Large-scale projects such as Concorde, the nuclear power programme, the Channel Tunnel and the proposed Severn tidal barrage have at least two characteristics in common: they are publicly funded (or the...

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  7. Spanish Civil War, The (6 Parts) (1983 Video)

    Producer
    John Blake; David Hart; David Kemp
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 52 min.

    An objective account of the Spanish civil war, setting out to explain the complicated political situation in Spain at the time - the complexity of a war which was fought simultaneously on many fronts - and...

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  8. Gumshoe (1971)

    Director
    Stephen Frears
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £15.99

    Stephen Frears’ debut feature is an affectionate tribute to the Hollywood detective movies of the 1940s. A Liverpool bingo caller, Albert Finney, dreams of being a private eye and then finds himself...

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  9. Othello (1965) (1965 Film)

    Director
    Stuart Burge
    Producer
    John Brabourne; Anthony Havelock-Allan
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 170 minutes), £18.99

    A recording of the National Theatre production, directed by John Dexter, restyled somewhat for film, but retaining much of its ‘staginess’, Olivier doing little to adapt his towering and extravagant...

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  10. Julius Caesar (Television)

    Director
    Alan Bridges
    Producer
    Cedric Messina
    Subject
    Drama

    Televised adaptation of the play with Maurice Denham as Caesar and Robert Stephens as Mark Antony.

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