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  1. Last of the Hiding Tribes, The (1998 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 60 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

    Adrian Cowell traces the history of three tribes of the Amazon rainforest that are on the edge of extinction: the Panara, the Uru Eu Wau Wau, and the Ava-Canoeiro. The films focus on the dramas of...

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  2. Kings of the Jungle (1991 Video)

    Director
    Chris Christophe
    Producer
    Chris Christophe
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The story of Brazil’s greatest living explorers, Claudio and Orlando Villas Boas, now both in their 70s, who retrace their 1943 expedition into a then unexplored region of the southern Amazon. Their...

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  3. Decade of Destruction (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min., 1993 sale: £40.00 (+ VAT +p&p)

    An account of the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest in Brazil. The destruction of the world’s tropical forests is the greatest single threat to the stability of environmental systems on our planet....

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  4. Decade of Destruction: Mechanics of the Forest (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    A tenth of the world’s species live in Amazonia, feeding off each other, pollinating each other, dependent in a web of life. A botanist and a zoologist explain and show the delicate balance between plant...

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  5. Decade of Destruction: Storms of the Amazon (1986 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Roger James
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Argues that deforestation will change the climate of the Amazonia and its surrounding regions. Trees push moisture into the atmosphere, thus generating rainfall, which can be used by all plants. Cutting the...

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  6. To Be Seven in Belfast (1975 Film)

    Director
    John Sheppard
    Producer
    Richard Creasey
    Subject
    Psychology; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at three Catholic and three Protestant children, all aged seven. Considers what effects the disturbances have had on the children and what their attitudes are. Also conveys the general situation in...

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  7. Double Sentence (1973 Film)

    Director
    Christine Fox
    Subject
    Law; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the situation of a young wife whose husband is sent to prison and the treatment she receives from society.

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  8. Looking for the Moor (Radio)

    Producer
    Roger James Elsgood
    Subject
    Drama

    Radio broadcast. In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing the...

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