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  1. Hausa Village (1949 Film)

    Director
    Jean Duff
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Although the commentary is occasionally misleading, this study of the Hausa of Nigeria gives a vivid impression of village life a generation ago, showing agricultural and fishing activities, hut building and...

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  2. John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1948)

    Subject
    Health & safety; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 20 minutes), £19.50

    Soon after the war, The New Yorker, bore a light-hearted cover of a summer picnic in a park. There was no hint to what was inside. Hersey’s article began where the magazine’s regular "Talk of the Town"...

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  3. Frustration Play Techniques (2 Parts) (1942 Film)

    Producer
    J Bucher; M S F Longmuir; L J Stone
    Subject
    Psychiatry; Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Consists mainly of comparative clinical recordings which demonstrate projective techniques developed by Dr Eugene Lerner of Sarah Lawrence College for the study of ego development and the demarcation of the...

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  4. Ainu Bear Ceremony, The (1931 Video)

    Director
    N G Munro
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 27 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An examination of the lives of the Ainu people of Japan, who are racially and culturally different from their Japanese neighbours and who obtain their food mainly by hunting and gathering. The bear ceremony,...

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  5. Grass (1925 Film, Video)

    aka: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

    Director
    Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack
    Producer
    Jesse L Lasky; Adolph Zukor
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In 1924 filmmakers Cooper and Schoedsack joined forces with journalist and sometime spy Harrison to film the Follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of east Persia in search of grass for...

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  6. Moana (1923 Film)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes Polynesian life in general with special reference to the ceremony of initiation to manhood, with its painful, and then almost defunct, tattooing operation. Filmed in Samoa.

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  7. Life for Christine (Film, Video)

    Producer
    John Goldschmidt
    Subject
    Drama; Law; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A documentary- drama based on a true case history researched by MIND, the National Association for Mental Health. The play starts when Colin, a social worker for MIND, discovers Christine, a 14-year-old...

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  8. Look at the Life of James Parkinson, A (Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 16 min.

    Tells the story of James Parkinson, whose ‘Essay on the shaking palsy’ of 1817 established the illness as a clinical entity. Shows his home, his church, the hospital where he trained, and the Royal...

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  9. Co-Operative Group Games

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) hi £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) sale

    Any group leader can use these co-operative games with his or her group and get a positive response. But besides being fun, they are designed to teach or reinforce basic skills in maths, English,...

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  10. Skill Games

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 27 minutes), £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) hi £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) sale

    Dale le Fevre demonstrates skill games that are fun but also teach important developmental skills that every child needs, to promote learning and social skills. The video introduces teachers to games that...

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