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  1. Tempest, The (2012 Film)

    Director
    Rob Curry; Anthony Fletcher
    Producer
    Rob Curry; Anthony Fletcher
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No distributor known (10/2011).

    Low-budget independent film. The directors enlist a multiracial group of 17 young people from South London to do a workshop on The Tempest. During rehearsals the teenagers comment on the negative attention...

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  2. Challenge, The: To Rebuild the Human Body (2001)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £34.99

    An examination of the latest techniques in artificial limb technology. Bio-engineering techniques mean that now prosthetic limbs can reproduce the natural biology and movement of real arms, legs and hands....

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  3. Insights into Violence (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Jane Elliott
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Violent behaviour comes in many forms from individual aggression through to war, and it has existed throughout history. The reasons behind violent behaviour are very complex, and social psychologists look to...

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  4. Working with Hostile and Resistant Teens (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 45 min.

    Social worker and counsellor Steven Campbell demonstrates effective management strategies for working with hostile and resistant young people. The videos consist of role plays with actual at-risk teenagers...

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  5. Penicillins and Beyond (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Watson
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    About antibiotics, what they are, how they work, and how they can beimproved. Ever since Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic characteristics of the penicillin fungus, the drug industry has been...

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  6. Being Happy is What Matters Most (1987 Video)

    Director
    Dirk Campbell
    Producer
    Dirk Campbell
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Visits Summerhill School, Suffolk, founded by A S Neill in 1921 and now led by his daughter. Shows how the children are allowed maximum freedom to exercise choice and how the democratic control of committees...

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  7. Something Old, Something New (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Peter Campbell
    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The oil palm is grown as a plantation crop in West Africa, the Far East and tropical America. Examines three developments in oil palm technology which have made an important contribution to agricultural...

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  8. Alkali Industry, The (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    The presenter, an historian of the chemical industry, demonstrates the chemistry involved in the three principal historical processes for the production of alkali. He visits sites associated with the...

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  9. Shirley Strum and the Pumphouse Gang (1982 Film)

    Producer
    Colin Willock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the studies of the American anthropologist Shirley Strum who, over a period of six years, observed a troop of baboons who live in Gilgil in the Rift Valley of Kenya. The ‘Pumphouse Gang’ is...

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  10. Taming of the Shrew, The (1981) (1981 Television, Video)

    Director
    Norman Campbell; Peter Dews
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 153 min.

    Television version of Peter Dew’s 1981 production of The Taming of the Shrew for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Len Cariou is Petruchio and Sherry Flett is Katherina. Norman Campbell directs...

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