Starting A Business: The Café Bar
30 mins, 2000 The film tells how Dave and his brothers set up a cafe-bar. They get planning permission, they design the interior, open up and customers pour in. But six months on, there’s a crisis. Money’s going out as fast as it’s coming in. And a lack of control means they don’t know where… Read more »
Staying There
23 mins, 1991 Setting up a company is one thing – but how do you ensure it survives in the long term? Rose Toys, once a highly successful manufacturer of model trains, is in crisis. Sales of its traditional products are falling. Harold Rose, its founder, is on the verge of retirement, but is reluctant… Read more »
Setting Up A Small Business
39 mins, 2020 This is about two young people who set up their own high-tech business — and did it their way. Alex Eyres and Roxanna Barnard set up Sound Technologies Ltd in 2015. The business supplies and installs audio visual equipment for domestic customers and corporate clients — that includes home cinema, also sound… Read more »
Training & Development
21 mins, 2012 PART 1: A Brief Guide Training is a way of making staff more valuable to the company and feel more valued. Development is a wider concept – about helping an employee to realise their full potential. Different types: There are different kinds of training, including induction training, on-the-job and off-the-job training. Training… Read more »
Termination Of Employment Introduction & Case Studies
30 mins, 2012 Whether it’s making people redundant or sacking someone for theft, terminating someone’s employment is a big step. This film highlights the legal issues involved and shows what happens in the real world. INTRODUCTION 12 mins If a company wants to terminate someone’s employment, it must follow set procedures – or risk being… Read more »
Too Much Tourism? 2: Snowdonia
27 mins, 2009 This is a film about the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. It’s a beautiful place but is its beauty also its biggest threat, attracting more tourists than it can sustain? NATIONAL PARK: Snowdonia is the second largest of Britain’s national parks, which were established after years of campaigning by an act… Read more »
Tipping Point?
35 mins, 2008 What is global warming? What is the evidence for it? How will it affect the world? This film explores these questions as it follows an icebreaker ship on a trip to the Arctic Circle. MELTING ICE: The Arctic Ice Sea, a plate of ice roughly the size of Europe, is disappearing. Scientists… Read more »
Tuvalu: Going Under
26 mins, 2004 Tuvalu, the South Pacific island nation, is in danger of vanishing under the sea. The islanders believe it is due to climate change caused by global warming. This film explains what global warming is and why environmentalists say it will cause flooding, not only in Tuvalu, but all over the world –… Read more »
The TV Advert
32 mins, 2000 How computer game heroine Lara Croft became the star of the Lucozade TV advert. Lucozade began life as a drink for sick people, but marketers hope Lara Croft will help change its image. The video follows the process of making the advert, from the brief to final production. A specialist media agency… Read more »
The Teamworking Experiment
29 mins, 1999 Manager Tony Spence used to be an autocratic bully. Now he’s trying to bring a new team-working approach to his firm. The idea is to give staff a feeling of ownership over their work. But the team-working experiment goes badly wrong when trust between Tony and his staff breaks down. This is… Read more »
Tourism Businesses In The Lake District
30 mins, 1997 Case studies of leisure businesses in Britain’s most popular national park. These include a “green” hotel, a booming garden centre, an animal park, and an industrial heritage site museum. They all seem successful, but what’s been their impact on the area? Are they damaging the environment? Or are they an important source… Read more »
UPDATE: Too Much Tourism? The Lake District
50 mins, 2016 [wpdm_package id=’5110′] This updates the original 1996 film, going back to the original issues and finding out the new ones. The Lake District is one of Britain’s most popular tourist honeypots. The basic challenge: how to encourage tourists without spoiling the natural beauty they come to see. MAN-MADE VERSUS NATURAL The speed… Read more »