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  1. 30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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  2. Bbs Documentary (2005)

    Director
    Jason Scott
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 330 minutes), $40.00

    A series of 8 short documentaries about the history of Bulletin Board Systems or BBSes, the forerunner of the Internet. It was established by a pioneering band of computer users who set up their home...

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  3. Fire at Seven Dials (2002)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building; Health & safety
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 14 minutes), £47.00

    In September 1999, the London Fire Brigade attended what at first appeared to be a routine fire at a video editing company, which occupied one of the commercial units of an old warehouse in the fashionable...

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  4. Science in Focus Special: Time and Place in the Communication Age

    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 2 x 20 minutes), £19.99

    The history of measuring time with exact precision is taken for granted - yet only a few generations ago, clocks were set locally by the sun. Now modern electronic technology allows time to be measured...

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