News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Commonwealth Teleview

Issue

Issue No.

6

Date Released

1957

Completion

Feb 1957

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Dr. Nkrumah

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: In this filmed interview marking the occasion of Ghana’s independence, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first Prime Minister, answers questions put to him by Robert McKenzie about the nation’s political, economic and social achievements of the past and present, and talks about his people’s hopes and aspirations for the future.

Keywords

Politics and government

Written sources

Overseas Film Library Catalogue   c.1957, p200
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
The National Archives INF 8   /34

COI Reference

MI 802/6

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Commonwealth Relations Office

This series is held by:

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

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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).

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