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No spare parts / Bullfrog Films presents ; producer/director, David Springbett ; writer, Eileen Thalenberg ; produced by Asterisk Productions in association with the Canadian International Development Agency.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Appropriate technology--Ghana.
- Appropriate technology.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Ghana.
- Recycling (Waste, etc.).
- Salvage (Waste, etc.)--Ghana.
- Salvage (Waste, etc.).
- Ghana.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (22 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- No spare parts portrays the introduction and utilization of appropriate technology in a developing nation. In Ghana, thrown away materials are being recovered, and used to build and modernize their economy. Requiring only minimal financial resources, small workshops use recycled automobile parts and traditional crafting skills to produce machinery of great benefit to the local people. Grinding mills, lathes, palm oil presses and lumber saws, all made from scrap, enable the population to improve their everyday lives. Ghana's utilization of discards as a resource for raw materials reduces their reliance on imports and improves their independence and self-reliance. The appropriate technology movement is burgeoning in Ghana, having a beneficial impact on all levels of society.
- Participant:
- Narrator, David Suzuki.
- Credits:
- Camera, Len Gilday, Peter Walker ; editor, Joan Mackian ; music, A.B. Crentsil.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Asterisk Film & Videotape Productions, Ltd. and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, ©1990; previously released in 1991.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed February 16, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-nsp Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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