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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Death by Design (1996 Video)

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

    Uses microphotography to look at the world of the cell inside the human body, a world where each individual cell is programmed to die. The notion that cell death gives birth to life has major implications...

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  4. Hearing Voices (1995 Video)

    Producer
    John Edginton
    Subject
    Psychiatry; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution

    Traditional clinical psychology postulates that people who hear voices are mad, but Dutch psychiatrist Professor Marius Romme argues that the voices people hear relate to their own thoughts and that they can...

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  5. Predator, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Kate O’Sullivan
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Recounts efforts by scientists to save the ‘Partula’, a Polynesian tree snail, which has been driven to near-extinction in its natural habitats by ‘Euglandina’, a rapacious meat-eating snail...

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