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  1. Playing with Fire (1987 Video)

    Director
    Patrick Fleming
    Producer
    Michael Blakstad
    Subject
    Health & safety
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    Emphasises the point that people do not realise how quickly fire spreads and how fast they need to react. Analyses video recordings of the Bradford City Football Ground in 1986. Looks at hazards in homes,...

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  2. Politics of Food, The (4 Parts) (1987 Video)

    Director
    Peter A Gordon; Ian McFarlane
    Producer
    Chris Bryer
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col 4 x 52 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p) series (AVP)

    1: Studies the high level of hunger and malnutrition in Sudan. 2: Looks at the relationship between the Western farmer and the peasants of the Third World and examines how decisions made in the US and Europe...

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  3. Environment of Dignity, An (1986 Video)

    Director
    Mahmood Jamal
    Producer
    Ahmed A Jamal
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Discusses the problems of elderly people within ethnic minority cultures. Covers such areas as historical/political perspectives; identification of problems; methods of alleviating problems; examples of good...

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  4. Faiz: Poet in Troubled Times (1986 Video)

    Director
    Faris Kermani
    Producer
    H O Nazareth
    Subject
    English language and literature; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    Looks at the development of modern politics in Pakistan through the eyes of its premier poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz who died in 1984. The story is told through interviews, poems, songs and cinema clips.

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  5. People’s Account, The (1986 Video)

    Director
    Milton Bryan
    Subject
    Politics & government; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min.

    An account of the 1985 riots in Handsworth, Brixton and Tottenham, concentrating on events on the Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham in the autumn of that year, following the maiming of Cherry Groce and the...

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  6. Short History of the Future, A: The Spaceship (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Sheila Hayman
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    Compares spaceflight as portrayed in the cinema to it really is. The US space programme was started in the Walt Disney studios by Werner von Braun, and the first space shuttle was called Enterprise after the...

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  7. To Be a Butterfly (1986 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    looks at the life cycle of the butterfly. Investigates the range of protective strategies the butterflies have developed: camouflage, mimicry, use of poisons. Butterflies featured include the monarch,...

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  8. Waste Not, Want Not 1 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Gillbe
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 90 min.

    Deals with the production and disposal of nuclear waste. Representatives in the debate include John Baker of CEGB/NIREX, Bill Wilkinson of BNFL; the anti-nuclear lobby: Stewart Boyle, Friends of the Earth,...

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  9. Looking into Paintings (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 25 min.

    Part 1 investigates how paintings have been interpreted and re-interpreted through the ages, beginning with Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’. Shows that we have expectations about paintings and painters based on...

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  10. Planets, The. Part 1: Children of the Sun (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Begins with an historical look at our knowledge of the solar system, from the ancient stone circles to the Greek view that the sun and planets rotated around the earth. Galileo and his opposing view is...

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