News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

113

Length of issue (in feet)

398

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Green For Go
• 2. The Phantom Brain
• 3. Tungsten Carbide Studs

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: There’s nothing so frustrating to the driver of an ambulance or fire engine as a traffic light at red. In the City of Bath emergency vehicles have been fitted with a piece of electronics to give them green lights on every urgent mission.

Keywords

Vehicles; Communications; Science and technology; Emergency services; Engineering

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/113

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth 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

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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