Audio Visual Reviews

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Slides/strips The biology of dispersal in plants Set of 40, 35 mm colour slides with accompanying notes by Maurice Ashby. Available from Focal Point Audio Visual Ltd, 251 Copnor Road, Portsmouth P03 5EE. Price £112.25, ref. 310; Arthur Jennings

Slides/strips Focus on otters Set of 40, 35 mm colour slides, plastic mounted and numbered, accompanied by a tape commentary, sequencing guide and pamphlet (supplementary), with further reading on natural history and conservation of otters. Prepared by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund, and produced by the WWF/IUCN Special Project for Promotion of Conservation Education. Price, as a set of slides £7.50, as a filmstrip £3.75, tape commentary £3. Available from WWF/IUCN Education Project, Greenfield House, Guiting Power, Gloucester GL54 5TZ; Terence MacDermott, Nick Alexander

Slides/strips Nerves, senses and skin Set TH32 A set of 32 card-mounted colour slides in a plastic wallet with teaching notes. Price £18.00, ref. M27520/3. Also available as a full-frame filmstrip of 32 frames with teaching notes. Price £11.00, ref. M27524/0. Available from Philip Harris Biological Ltd, Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare, Avon BA24 9BJ; Diana E. Manuel

Slides/strips Fitness for survival Filmstrip of 30 full-frame colour photographs with tape cassette (28 minutes) and booklet. Designed and produced by Margaret Jago. Price £10.58. Ref. B10 005. Distributed by Audio Learning Ltd, Sarda House, 183–189 Queensway, London W2 5HL; A. J. Williams

Films Every care—but no responsibility 16 mm colour film. Running time: 20 minutes. Year of release: 1977. Produced by Mantis Wildlife Films for the Bank of New South Wales. Sales enquiries to Educational Media International, 25 Boileau Road, London W5 3AL; John A. Barker

Films Come into my parlour, said the spider 16 mm colour film. Running time: 20 minutes. Year of release: 1976. Produced by Mantis Wildlife Films. Sales enquiries to Educational Media International, 25 Boileau Road, London W5 3AL; John A. Barker

Films The behaviour of the rat A 16 mm sound, colour film. Running time: 14 minutes. For sale or hire from Viewtech Audio Visual Media Ltd, 122 Goldcrest Road, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol BS17 6XF; J. R. Adams

Films The estuary 16 mm colour film. Running time: 12 minutes. Year of release: 1979. Produced by The National Film Board of Canada. Sales enquiries to: Educational Media International, 25 Boileau Road, London W5 3AL; John A. Barker

Films Protist physiology 16 mm colour film. Released 1976. Ref. 194 X 2010. Running time: 13 minutes. Produced and photographed by Bruce J. Russell, and published by Wards National Science Establishment, USA. Sales enquiries to BFA Educational Films, 56 Copthorne Road, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 7EE; John A. Barker

Films Evolution A set of ten 20 minute television programmes in full colour, produced by Granada Television for Independent Television for Schools. They were first shown January to April 1981, then September to December 1982, and will be repeated in the academic year 1983/4. The series is in four units: Unit 1 Out of the past-parts 1–3 Unit 2 Relationships -parts 1 and 2 Unit 3 Selection in action -parts 1–3 Unit 4 Origins of change -parts 1 and 2. Further details from Granada Television, Manchester M60 9EA; Andy Williams

Multi-media Microdot kit Ref. M83 101/9 from Philip Harris Biological, Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare, Avon BA24 9BJ. Price £5.50; Colin Wood-Robinson

Multi-media Photosynthesis: Energy from light The producers of this tape-slide programme reviewed in JBE 16(1) on page 77, have asked us to point out that the error mentioned in our review has now been corrected. The producers would be happy to send free replacements for the defective slides (nos 69 and 77 of Part II). Requests should be directed to: Science and Mankind Inc., Communications Park, Box 2000. Mount Kisco, New York 10549, USA.