Controlled Environments: Plastic Cloud
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: An extraordinarily simple idea - an artificial cloud, in fact a large plastic bag suspended in the air - which might just be a step towards the control of climate. It provides shape for the ground below, and, by absorbing the sun’s rays, can control air temperature beneath it.
- Keywords
- Weather; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/193
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- John Wilson
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Fax
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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How to cite this record
'Controlled Environments: Plastic Cloud', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 193. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325827 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)