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  1. Struggle for a Border (9 Parts) (1967 Film)

    Director
    Pierre l’Amare; Ronald Dick
    Producer
    Nicholas Balla; Ronald Dick
    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Part 1: From the first contacts to the culminating conflict - the whole struggle of New England and New France, and the economic contest between the St Lawrence trade system and the Atlantic-Hudson system....

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  2. Mechanisms of Ocean Tides (1966 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Composed entirely of animated diagrams, the film presents tidal definitions and tidal theory to an audience assumed to have no previous knowledge of tides. Using figures of the moon, sun and earth, spring...

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  3. Nile in Egypt, The (1966 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Geography
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 13 min.

    Demonstrates Egypt’s dependence on the River Nile for crop irrigation, shows traditional methods of directing water and deals with the new dams and barrages which are contributing to the more efficient use...

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  4. Beach, The: A River of Sand (1965 Film)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Sources and movement of beach material: introduction to the dynamics of inshore sediment circulation and some implications in terms of coastal morphology and management. Sediment sinks withdrawing sand from...

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  5. Evidence for the Ice Age (1965 Film)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Evidence shows that a large part of North America was once covered with ice, that ice does actually move and in doing so, modifies the landscape over which it passes.

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  6. River with a Problem (1961)

    Director
    Graham Parker
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography

    A film on water pollution, using the Ottawa River as an example of what happens when a river is used as a dumping place for municipal and industrial waste. Colour animation illustrates exactly what happens...

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  7. Corn Belt (1961)

    Subject
    Geography

    This educational film was produced by Indiana University in 1961 and shows the importance of corn as an economic commodity. [17 minutes]

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  8. Antarctic Crossing (1958 Video)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

    About the 1957-58 crossing of the Antarctic continent. Tells how eight men of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition’s advance party made landfall on the coast of Antarctica and established the base...

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  9. Scale is the New Geography (1953 Video)

    Director
    Demitrios Eames
    Subject
    Design; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 120 minutes), $12.50

    An original way to understand and teach the idea of scale, the key to effective citizenship and scholarship. In total the DVD includes 12 short films on scale: A FEW TOOLS FOR TEACHING SCALE, ADDITIONAL...

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  10. Forest Heritage (1952)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 21 minutes), £8.00

    This film portrays the people, traditions and landscape of the New Forest in the 1950s. Featuring music by Clifton Parker, cinematography by Roy Layzell and commentary by John Snagge, it was commissioned by...

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