Fast moving, slick slide-lecture on neonatal birth injury for medical students and nurses, with the main emphasis on recognition. Part of Leeds paediatrics video library. Audience: Medical students, nurses, midwives, health visitors. This film made in 1983 reflects the medical understanding of…
Inspired by a flashback about his birthmark, filmmaker Lester Alfonso is convinced that making a film will help confront a distant trauma rooted in cultural superstition. A wry, sensitive, and candidly confessional exercise in creative anthropology; by soliciting fellow mark-bearers to add their testimonies…
One woman's experience of becoming a mother. Three years in the making, this film is a reflective look at a woman's experience of becoming a mother. It was filmed during her pregnancy, and the birth and early babyhood of her second child. She critically examines the attitude towards her…
Play contrasting authoritarian and liberal teaching methods David Leyland's critically acclaimed television film looks at the conflict between the old, authoritarian methods of school teaching and the more relaxed methods favoured by progressive minded teachers. The focus is on an idealistic…
Exploring the world of the pipe organ, through a bio pic of the organ builder, Lynn A Dobson, and performance of virtuoso organist, Haig Mardirosian. While watching the construction of his Opus 89 (a team project), organ builder Lynn A Dobson takes us through a journey not only his career and early…
In the year 2000 all the lions in a place called Selinda had been hunted virtually to extinction. Two lionesses walked around, calling into a void. One day everything changed. In 2006 we stopped all hunting in the area. Botswana banned all hunting in 2014. The land was primed for recovery. Then,…
A discussion by the pioneers of child therapy. In a discussion by retired professional people who were pioneers in psychoanalytic child psychotherapy before it was recognised, the picture of how it was at the beginning and the first 50 years of this discipline emerges. They talk about John Bowlby,…
A chronicle of how African American entrepreneurs, artists, actors, crafts people carved out a niche for positive character portrayals and stories while Hollywood traded in racist stereotypes. Known as "Race Films," between the 1920's and 1940's, a burgeoning Black Film industry…
The never-been-told-before story of Dick Metz, whose vagabond adventures around the globe from 1958-1961 inspired one of the most beloved and watched documentaries of all-time, Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer. Birth of The Endless Summer follows Metz's train-jumping, steamship-hopping tour,…
Birth of The Endless Summer follows Californian surf pioneer, Dick Metz, as he vagabonds the globe from 1958-1961-revealing the untold story behind one of the most watched and beloved documentaries of all time, The Endless Summer.
Birth of The Endless Summer follows Californian surf pioneer, Dick Metz, as he vagabonds the globe from 1958-1961-revealing the untold story behind one of the most watched and beloved documentaries of all time, The Endless Summer.
In 1968 George A. Romero, a young college drop-out, directed "Night of the Living Dead," a low budget horror film that that shocked the world, became a counterculture icon and spawned a billion dollar zombie industry that continues today.
