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  1. Mephisto (1981 Film)

    Director
    István Szabó

    Feature film which details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hoefgen (Brandauer) is the head of a state-funded theatre department who tires...

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  2. Falstaff (1979 Video)

    Director
    Götz Friedrich
    Subject
    Drama; Music

    Verdi’s Falstaff staged and directed by Götz Friedrich. The Wiener Philharmoniker is conducted by Sir George Solti with Gabriel Bacquier as Falstaff.

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  3. African Businessman (1975 Film)

    Director
    Herbert Risz
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Three West African enterpreneurs are interviewed and general problems are discussed. Their projects are outlined and the outcome of their ideas shown. The contrast between traditional values and the style...

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  4. Kentu (1975 Film)

    Director
    Herbert Risz
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Emanicipation of women in sub-Saharan Africa is rather different from in the West. This film studies five women and their families in the Congo who have rejected the idea of love and the couple as the basis...

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  5. Alfred Kaiser: Decomposing Nazi Phraseology (1975)

    Director
    Alfred Kaiser
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £24.99

    In the second half of the 1970s Alfred Kaiser was entirely unknown to the film world when he went public with two films, namely A THIRD REICH (1975) and A THIRD REICH FROM ITS REFUSE (1977). Using excerpts...

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  6. Pygmies, The (1974 Film)

    Director
    Herbert Risz
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of how the Pygmies of the Congo (Brazzaville) live. Deals with their relationship with government officials and with their sedentary Bantu neighbours. The Pygmies, reluctant to change, discuss...

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  7. Optical Illusions (1956 Film)

    Producer
    Hubert Rohracher
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows illusions of 1) size by contrast and perspective, 2) motion with Exner’s spiral, 3) apparent motion (which is the basis of cinematography), and 4) pattern by rays across a square, by light and dark...

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  8. Hydrates Under the Heat Microscope (1954 Film)

    Director
    Adelheid Kofler
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The phenomena to be observed on heating hydrates in air and in paraffin oil are demonstrated on Dr Kofler’s special heat-bench microscope. Most hydrates are shown to behave thermodynamically as...

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  9. Isomorphism and Isodimorphism (1954 Film)

    Director
    Adelherd Brandstatter; Maria Brandstatter
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Microphotographs made on Dr Kofler’s heat-bench microscope, using polarised light.*

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  10. Warning in the Dark (1954 Film)

    Director
    T Erismann; I Köhler
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes an experiment with ‘Fernsinn’, the apparent sixth sense developed by blind people, which warns them of the presence of solid objects. Using a particularly sensitive man who has been blind from...

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