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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 2009, a team of marine archaeologists carrying out a sonar survey of the seabed around the remote Italian island of Ventotene made an astonishing discovery. The wrecks of five ancient Roman ships were found in pristine condition, each one fully laden with exotic goods. Remarkably, much of the cargo remained exactly as the ancient Roman crews had loaded it, suggesting that these ships had not capsized but had gone to the bottom of the sea intact...
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnetic center for radical innovation and experiment, the Mecca for creative talents. On-camera, dramatic and historic moments are recalled by participants in these legendary events e.g. Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, and many more. Traces who came to Paris and why, whom they met, what they made there, and how being in Paris transformed them and their work.
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1 videodisc (approximately 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Examines the global phenomenon of vanishing frogs. Travels to Panama, where a facilty shelters fifty-eight of the rarest frog species on the planet, and where also a small patch of forest provides a thriving frog habitat.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable color and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous creatures in the sixteenth century, they believed they must be from heaven and called them Birds of Paradise. The people of New Guinea make even greater claims. They say the birds possess supernatural powers and magic. But to find these birds in New Guinea and to witness their extraordinary mating displays...
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1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"With their agile little hands, raccoons have become the urban bandits we love and hate. In the past 70 years, their population has exploded in North American cities, and interaction with humans is making them smarter -- maybe even pushing them down a new evolutionary path. Using high-definition, infrared cameras that turn pitch dark into daylight, The Nature of Things achieves something that has never been done before: it intimately follows a family...
7) Hamlet
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1 videodisc (182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
Prince Hamlet plots revenge after he discovers his uncle murdered his father, the king.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The music instinct provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism is moved by the undeniable effect of music, and the deep connection between music and our bodies and brains. The program follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music's deep mysteries.