News on Screen

Dates

1949 - 1960

Category

Cinemagazine - Industrial

History

The Shell Catalogue described Scrapbook as ‘a cinemagazine for farmers.' Issues were generally around 18 minutes long and focused on improvements to farming technology using Shell and BP products. The films were shown, using mobile film units, to rural social groups and farming organisations, at their request, as part of an audio-visual programme specially tailored to a farming audience. During 1949-1950 the Shell-BP Farm Service organised 400 film shows. The most popular item on the programme was Scrapbook, which was requested 325 times. It was produced by Random Film Productions.

Provenance

Records for this series were constructed from Film User, the Shell-Mex BP Cataluge and the BFI Database.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

Series held

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