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  1. Secret Reeds, The (1981 Film, Video)

    Producer
    John Tomkins
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Deals with the ecology and management of reed bed areas, explaining how reed beds are very short-lived, always giving way to scrub and then woodland. RSPB reserves include major reed bed areas which support...

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  2. Cries from the Deep (1981)

    Director
    Jacques Gagné
    Subject
    Biology; Geography

    This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team, and a NFB film crew to explore the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the world’s richest fishing areas. They...

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  3. Land Provides, The (1980 Film)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Concerns East Farm, a 62 hectare dairy farm at Hammoon, near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Shows how with imagination and a small outlay, the existing wildlife on farms can be preserved, integrated and...

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  4. Life on Earth (13 Parts) (1979 Video)

    Producer
    Christopher Parson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 x 55 min.

    Series tracing the development of life from its earliest beginnings through single cell forms to the final emergence of man. Filmed in more than 100 locations around the world. 1: The beginnings of life on...

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  5. Hunters of the Plains (1979 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The migration of a quarter of a million wildebeeste along with zebra and gazelle, means a steady food supply for the predators of the Serengeti who have their own young to feed. The main hunters are lions,...

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  6. Old Plantation, The (Jamaica) (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In an overgrown tonka bean plantation in the hill forests of Trinidad, looks at the giant locust, the hairy bird-eating spider, a six-inch snake which hunts termites, a termite colony, hercules ants and the...

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  7. Family That Lives with Elephants, The (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Iain Douglas-Hamilton’s Oxford PhD project was to study the ecology of the elephant population over a five-year period and advise on its co-existence with farming developments. Access to lush montane...

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  8. World You Never See, The (Detailed Close-Ups from the World of Wildlife) (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Film & television production
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The work of Oxford Scientific Films unit in the England, showing production techniques employed and examples of nature film-making.

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  9. Gorilla (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at the family life of a band of mountain gorillas in the Kahuzi-Beiga National Park in eastern Zaire and the work of one man, Adrian Deschryver, in his efforts to protect the gorillas of Kahuzi-Beiga.*

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  10. Aldabra Reprieved (1973 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An effective piece of nature conservation propaganda which demonstrates the unique nature of the fauna of the coral island of Aldabra (in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar), which was at one time...

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