News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

189

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

523

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Wearing The Solution: Electric Boots
• 2. Wearing The Solution: Itch And Scratch
• 3. Wearing The Solution: Walkie-Talkie Waistcoat
• 4. Wearing The Solution: Flotation Suit

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: A survey of some of the latest things to wear - not that they’re the latest thing in fashion, but all carry the solution to some awkward problems. A small wrist-watch has been specially adapted so as not to tell its wearer the time. Its function, instead, is to serve as a measure of the amount of scratching done at night. It was designed by a medical team to allow objective assessment of new ointments given to sufferers from skin diseases.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/189

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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

Web

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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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