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  1. One Word of Truth (1981 Video)

    Director
    Peter J Sisam
    Producer
    Ailsa Hamilton; Harry Howlett; Finn Harald Wettefors
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 29 min.

    Based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize lecture. Prison camp sequences shot in Lapland, works of art and newsreel footage dramatise many issues facing mankind such as the differing scale of values in...

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  2. Tissue Respiration (1981 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 19 min.

    Sources of energy such as mitosis and meiosis (cell division), e.g. embryology of the newt. These processes require a supply of energy which is controlled and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is introduced as...

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  3. Insects: Adaptations for Survival (1978 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows how various species of insects have evolved ways of escaping from predators.

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  4. Insects: Food and Feeding Habits (1978 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min.

    Shows different foods eaten by insects and the ways in which the insects have adapted to the particular foods they eat.

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  5. Water Insects (1977 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Boulton
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min.

    Shows the ways in which insects have evolved to conquer new environments. Shows examples of species that have taken to living on the surface of the water,; the semi-aquatic insects that live beneath the...

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  6. Social Insects (1976 Video)

    Director
    Peter Boulton
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

    Aims to illustrate the underlying similarities between the different insect social groupings. Social behaviour in insects is found among bees, wasps, ants and termites. The organisation of each group is...

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  7. Industrial Revolution, The (1975 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

    Shows industrial developments that transformed the cottage industries of the 18th century into the power-driven factories of the 19th. Darby’s introduction of coke iron smelting mill leads to Huntsman’s...

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  8. The House and the Sun (1974 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Technology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 28 min.

    Survey of the use of solar energy in architecture. The traditional passive approach to energy conservation is contrasted with active techniques now becoming available to modern architectural designers. The...

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  9. Fluid Flow (1971 Video)

    Director
    John Pitt
    Producer
    George Seager
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 13 min.

    Flow in a pipe is used to illustrate laminar and turbulent flow. The Reynolds number is explained as the ratio of inertia and viscous forces, the key Reynolds number of 2500 being given as the limit of...

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  10. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A: An Introduction (1971 Video)

    Director
    Peter Seabourne
    Producer
    John Seabourne
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min.

    Part of a series of educational films intended as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same actors play...

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