News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

175

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Unnecessary Waste: Grid Pastures
• 2. Unnecessary Waste: Punch Bag Bollards
• 3. Unnecessary Waste: Eggsploration
• 4. Unnecessary Waste: Inflatable Solar Still

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Sometimes we waste the resources we have around us, simply because we go about things the wrong way. No greater waste of resources than that caused by the continual knock-down battle that goes on between road-bollards and the careless driver! The latest idea is a bollard that never needs replacing: when a car knocks it down, this bollard just swings back again into place.

Keywords

Science and technology; Safety devices; Road transport; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/175

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).

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