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  1. Big Melt, The (2014)

    Director
    Martin Wallace
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £19.99

    A special commission as part of the 100 Years of Stainless Steel celebrations, THE BIG MELT is a feature length elegy to the men and women who toiled in Sheffield’s steelworks and a hymn to Britain’s...

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  2. Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film (2006)

    Director
    Geoffrey Jones
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £14.99

    Since the 1950s, Geoffrey R. Llewellyn Jones has been making short films with an extraordinary marriage of images, music and rhythm that make him one of Britain’s true film artists. This DVD brings a...

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  3. New Face on Capitol Hill (1961)

    Subject
    Architecture; Engineering; Politics & government

    NEW FACE ON CAPITOL HILL depicts the Georgia Marble Company’s role in the reconstruction of the east facade of the U.S. Capitol building prior to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, and includes footage of...

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  4. Gorbals Story, The (1953)

    Director
    David MacKane
    Producer
    Ernest Gartside
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 95 minutes), £16.33

    Johnnie, now a successful artist, recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared life with in a slum tenement building. The screenplay...

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  5. Fawley Achievement (1951)

    Subject
    Energy; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £8.00

    The building of the Esso Petroleum Company’s refinery at Fawley, on Southampton Water in Hampshire, was an important part of Britain’s post-war industrial development. Its official opening in September...

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  6. Refinery in Miniature and Refinery at Work (1951)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Energy; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 31 minutes), £8.00

    Two films about the Hawley oil refinery on Southampton Water in Hampshire. REFINERY IN MINIATURE (1951, B&W, 9 mins 35 secs). In 1950, as thousands of workers descended on Fawley to build a new refinery, a...

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  7. Coffee: America’s Happiest Addiction (1950)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 135 minutes), $14.99

    Of all the legal narcotics in our lives, coffee is the most constantly prevalent and accepted. It is truly a part of our culture. This collection presents films that show the making of coffee, the workings...

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  8. Roll out the Barrel: The British Pub on Film

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 321 minutes), £15.99

    An eclectic mix of dramas, trade films, documentaries and newsreels, showing the changing face of the British pub from 1944 to 1982, exploring its role as a locus for community gathering, the exchange of...

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  9. Power in the Land, A

    Subject
    Energy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £6.00

    A film about the importance of electricity commissioned by the Electrical Trades Union.

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