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  1. Chimps on Death Row (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Sam Roberts
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the fate of chimpanzees used for scientific experiments, now no longer needed. In the past, they were used to develop aircraft ejection seats, undergo space travel experiments, and test vaccines...

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  2. Computer That Ate Hollywood, The (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Nigel Paterson
    Subject
    Film & television production
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Looks at how special effects in motion pictures have moved forward during a century of cinema, culminating in today’s state-of-the art illusions, showing examples from ‘Titanic’. Discusses the use of...

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  3. Crash 1 (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Sam Roberts
    Subject
    Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In the hundred years since the first driver died in a car crash, cars have become safer but progress has come at a price. Archive material reveals how volunteers, experiments on live animals and even the...

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  4. Dinosaurs in Your Garden (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Thompson
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Recently discovered fossils of feathered dinosaurs in China could validate the work of palaeontologist John Ostrom, who has been arguing for nearly 30 years that birds evolved from predatory dinosaurs....

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  5. Gulf War Jigsaw (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Reveals how counter-measures used to protect troops in the Gulf War against chemical and biological weapons may have backfired, making some verterans serious ill. The number of British and American veterans...

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  6. Life and Times of Life and Time, The (1998 Video)

    Director
    Jean-Francois Brunet; Peter Friedman
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Examines the nature of ageing and why the body’s cells die. Asks if ageing can be ‘cured’. With ‘Methuselah’ flies and mutant worms, scientists are beginning to understand the cells and genes that...

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  7. Limits to Birth, The (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Liz Tucker
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the moral and scientific issues sourrounding the treatment of premature babies, as techniques of neonatal care become more sophisticated. Looks at the case of Kristen, alive after being born at 23...

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  8. Magic Bullet (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Malcolm Clark
    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the progress of Dr Paul Zamecnick to treat disease and avoid damaging side effects by using DNA itself as a drug to block disease at its genetic base. Examines the long struggle against intense...

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  9. Mir Mortals (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Jill Fullerton-Smith
    Subject
    Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Tells the story of four men who orbited the earth in 1997 on board the ill-fated space station ‘Mir’. With both the future of manned space flight and their lives in balance, the astronauths and...

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  10. Mosquito! (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Malcolm Clark
    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    As the World Health Organisation embarks on a new plan to cut malaria deaths by half by 2010, traces the 100-year long fight against the disease, which may be responsible for over 1.5m deaths annually.

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