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Introductory programme to the TDK Video Letter Project, based on video programmes exploring the structure and values of contemporary Japanese society as seen through the eyes of Japanese people. The series...
Series exploring the structure and values of contemporary Japanese society through the eyes of people experiencing each aspect of life. 1: Looks at the education systems and discusses examination pressures...
Based on the ideas of Susan Sontag as described in her book ‘Illness as Metaphor’, the programme explores the impact of AIDS on contemporary society, comparing it to previous plagues which aroused...
A treatment of archival footage shot by George Milner of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1955 and 1959 while gathering material for his ‘Samoan Dictionary’. The...
Part 1: Shots of present-day Glasgow are intercut with stills and newsreels from the 1930s and 1940s. The first programme in the series deals with the slogan, ‘Glasgow’s Miles Better’, itself, the...
What has been the effect of the changing role of women upon men? Gives the views of some boys from two schools in the Midlands, a comprehensive school in Corby and an independent school in nearby Oakham,...
About the Baka ('Pygmy’) people and their life in the tropical rainforest. Offers no analysis but sets out to show the Baka through the strong personalities of three central characters: Licano, a man in...
Charts the uneven development of Blackpool through the 19th century, from a small genteel town into the first and largest resort for the industrial working class. With the advent of railway came day...
Bradford has a community of 60,000 Muslim Asians. The film is a detailed study of musical culture and education within this community. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teachers and...
Relates the daily battle for survival of the four million slum dwellers of Bombay, who constitute half of the city’s population. They are the workforce of Bombay: the industrial labour, the construction...
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