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  1. Spinning Hair String, Getting Water from Well, Binding Girl’s Hair (1965 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The object of the series of films was to create a scientific record of the traditional life of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia. They concentrate on the subsistence technology of the...

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  2. Pre-Eclampsia/Eclampsia (1964 Film)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The many theories attempting to explain the aetiology of toxaemia are outlined. There is such a diversity of opinion that it has been called the disease of theories, none of which has been proved adequate to...

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  3. Seven Up (1964 Film, Video)

    aka: 7 Up

    Director
    Michael Apted; Derek Granger
    Producer
    Paul Almond
    Subject
    Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £25.00 (sale), £7.00 (hire)

    A group of seven-year-old children from different backgrounds and education answer questions on their ambitions, attitudes to people from different races, marriage, and other topics.

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  4. Women in Prison (1964 Film)

    Director
    Stephen Peet
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Women’s prisons in Britain: Holloway, Askham Grange open prison and Styal semi-secure prison showing prisoners, warders and life in prison with comments by some of the people involved.*

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  5. I Think They Call Him John (1964 Film)

    Director
    John Krish
    Producer
    Jack Carruthers
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 28 minutes), £19.50

    The life of the old and lonely is illustrated by a widower, without children, living alone in a huge block of flats in London.

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  6. Hangman, The (1964)

    Producer
    Les Goldman
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

    This short film, composed of paintings by Paul Julian, and accompanied by Maurice Ogden’s poem tells the story of a hangman who arrives at a town and executes its citizens one by one. As each citizen is...

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  7. Magician, The (1964)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 13 minutes), £18.80

    Short Polish anti-war and prize-winning film. Playing children are lured by the ‘magician’ who gives then guns and teaches them war games. As trained cannon fodder they are marched away, while others...

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  8. Miao Year (1964 Film)

    Director
    William R Geddes
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A detailed ethnographic study of the Miao tribe, who practice shifting agriculture, in northern Thailand. Shows details of Miao ritual, the cultivation of agricultural produce (maize, rice and the opium...

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  9. Which Way the Wind (1963)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £23.00

    Drama on war, acted in the ‘bare stage’ style

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  10. Iron Smelters of Eremi, The (1963 Film)

    Director
    Michael Crosfield
    Subject
    Anthropology; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows in the traditional methods of iron smelting and forging used by the Madi of Uganda. In Eremi only one old man knows how to smelt iron. A younger man goes digging some eight miles away for iron ore,...

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