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  1. Cornflake Story, The (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Betty Talks
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Cornflakes were a new foodstuff created by industrialisation. The programmes traces how the food, first developed as part of a religious health regime, had become ‘the nation’s breakfast’ in America....

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  2. Invasion from Mars: Or How Orson Welles Panicked a Nation (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    On 30 October 1938, the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre group enacted a version, by Howard Koch, of H.G. Wells, novel ‘War of the Worlds’. It was transmitted live at 8pm standard time throughout the USA on...

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  3. Joseph Wright of Derby: Images of Science (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Walton
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks in detail at two paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby: ‘A Lecture on the Orrery’ and ‘The Alchemist’. By an analysis of the content of these works, amd a summary of the art-historical traditions...

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  4. March of Aluminium, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    In the mid-19th century aluminium was a precious metal. By the 1930s it was a bulk material, used in aircraft manufacture, electrical cables, kitchenware and motor cars. By 1950 its applications were...

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  5. Soap and Water (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at two aspects of water supply - the provision of abundant quantities of clean water and the consequences of that water being available. The building of the Thirlmere Dam in the Lake District in the...

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  6. Transportation Revolution in Scotland (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Leonard; Janet McBain
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 45 min.

    Includes footage of George Bennie’s railplane, a propeller-driven vehicle which ran along elevated track in the 1930s. Sequences of servicing a steam locomotive; time-lapse photography of a tram being...

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  7. Future of Print, The (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Geoff Wheeler
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    What future is there for the printed word?. By looking at the impact of the printing press in the 15th century, we can get some clues to the future. Presents a brief history of printing and literacy using...

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  8. From Coal to Colour (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Paul Kafno
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at coke-making and the early history of gas lighting, and includes material on a surviving gas works at Newton Stewart in Scotland. Animation shows how coal tar collects as a by-product. Discusses...

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  9. Mass Producing Fords (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Henry Ford’s Model T is for many the symbol of mass production. Ford followed a tradition of scientific management, analysing work practice and reorganising so as to reduce the need for skill and...

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  10. Mechanisation of Textile Spinning, The (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Illustrates the methods of working early textile machines, from the flying shuttle to the spinning mule. Engravings, cartoons and actual examples from Helmshare Higher Mill Museum are used. The final section...

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