Demonstration of ankle movements. Movements and muscular control demonstrated using a living dancer, dissected anatomical specimen. Skeleton, mechanical model and cineradiography. Does not show current practice. Included for archival use.
About Leicester Red Cross Toy Library. Shows how different Toy Libraries have developed. Leicester Red Cross Toy Library is very large, and staff help parents to choose suitable toys, in particular for children with special needs, Northcote Toy Library in Lambeth encourages parents’ co-operation…
A group of women speak frankly about safer sex. This programme was made by a group of women volunteers, of varying background and sexual orientation, 'Women's Action on Aids'. The aim is to raise issues about safer sex for women in a way which will enable women watching to discuss their…
Discussion on in-vitro fertilisation. Clinicians and research doctors discuss in-vitro fertilisation (test-tube babies) and experiments with early human embryos. The thinking behind the current voluntary regulation of IVF is explored, as is the proposed legislation to protect human embryos and regulate…
In Between Mountains and Oceans: A sacred ceremony in Japan tells us how to solve today's environmental problems Available on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/in-between-mountains-oceans/id1132394355?mt=6 Get in now on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/In_Between_Mountains_and_Oceans?id=ilptB3_FFTA Watch…
A documentary about the East German shipbuilding and fishing town of Rostock, exploring questions about its daily life raised in North Shields, during Amber's 5 year residency. It grew out of a collaboration with DEFA, the East German documentary studio, which made From Marx & Engels to Marks…
A film by Dom Melano, with Prof John Braithwaite. Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation are policy ideas that have spread widely in the 21st century. They are about the notion that because crime hurts, justice should heal. Because injustice causes great pain, it is more important to fix it…
Skateboarding is illegal in multiple cities, and many people believe skate parks are places where kids gather to buy, sell and do drugs. But what if the opposite were true? What if skating and skate parks actually help kids avoid gangs, drugs and other troubles? ExtraOrdinary is the inspiring story…
‘Trouble in Lemur Land’ follows two men, an American primatologist and a Malagasy conservationist, on their quest to protect the rare Silky Sifakas species, at the same time providing a rare glimpse into the life of this extraordinarily beautiful and graceful animal.
Is the Darknet a prophetic glimpse into the twisted dystopian future that awaits us, or the key to escaping the Orwellian reality in which we are already living? This is the central question at the heart of this investigation of the Darknet, which delves beyond the child porn, drug sales and hitmen-for-hire…
For the first time after almost five decades, this film reveals the true identity of a mythical hero who helped unhappy and confused little souls. The most popular children's magazine in Yugoslavia was called Modra lasta (Blue Swallow). In 1969, it created Lastan. For hundreds of thousands of children…
In 1968, we produced two hour-length documentaries in cinema veritè style about Thelonious Monk and his music - "Monk" & "Monk in Europe". Part-one takes place in the USA, where Monk and his quartet play at the Village Vanguard, at recording sessions for Columbia Records,…
