News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

212

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Trees: Tree Monitor
• 2. Trees: Rotten Roots
• 3. Trees: Insect Virus

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: To satisfy the increasing demand for timber in a world where timber resources are decreasing, scientists in Britain are making a concerted effort to understand more about a little known subject - trees. Insecticides almost invariably have a limited life. Quite soon, insects build a resistance to each newly discovered strain. The latest drastic measure in the forester’s fight against the saw-fly larvae, which can chew their way through whole plantations, is biological warfare. They’re spraying them with a virus endemic to those insects and they have proved that the spray is safe. It will devastate whole generations of saw-flies but leave the ecology unharmed.

Keywords

Science and technology; Forestry; Insects

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/212

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Fred Goodland

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Phone

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Fax

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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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