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  1. Robe of White, A (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows international co-operation as 16 nations work together, pooling their knowledge about the environment of Antarctica. Wildlife shown includes seals, penguins and sea elephants.

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  2. World You Never See, The (Detailed Close-Ups from the World of Wildlife) (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Film & television production
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The work of Oxford Scientific Films unit in the England, showing production techniques employed and examples of nature film-making.

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  3. Devil’s Ditches, The (1974)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Media studies

    A television pprogramme made in 1974 recording archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor’s 1973 excavation of a section of the Devil’s Dyke, near Newmarket in Cambridgeshire, which was due to be removed to...

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  4. Aldabra Reprieved (1973 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An effective piece of nature conservation propaganda which demonstrates the unique nature of the fauna of the coral island of Aldabra (in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar), which was at one time...

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  5. Empty Desert, The (1973 Film)

    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of life in the Namib desert and of the adaptations of animals to life at very high daytime temperatures and virtually no rainfall. Shows the importance of the deposition of water by the diurnal...

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  6. Million Dollar Weed, The (1973 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the growth and development of the world’s largest seaweeds, the giant kelp ‘Macrocystis’. Includes current research programmes into farming it more extensively for use in food and other...

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  7. Orson Welles Great Mysteries, Volume One (1973)

    Subject
    Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 317 minutes), £15.00

    British television series transmitted between 1973-1974. This anthology includes 13 episodes, all introduced by Orson Welles. The season consisted of 26 episodes. Included here are: -A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED...

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  8. Citizens of the Coral (1972 Film)

    Producer
    Aubrey Buxton
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the fish that feed off the corals that established themselves on the wreck of the wartime vessel ‘Umbria’ on the Wingate Reef, off the Red Sea coast of the Sudan.

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  9. Okavango (1970 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at the wildlife in the Okavango swamp, an area almost the size of Wales, in Botswana, threatened by plans to alter the swamp by diverting the flow of the river feeding it.

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  10. Lost Centuries, The (8 Parts) (1968)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History

    An 8-part television series made in 1968 looking at post-Roman Britain from the rise of Christianity and the influence of the later Islamic empires though to the beginning of the Renaissance. The series also...

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