Dissolving Glass
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Out of the world of electronics and fibre optics: a glass that will slowly dissolve; as a bead, it can be flavoured with either medicines or with poisons. It’s being used as a pill which will slowly disappear as it counteracts disease in cattle or spreads death to river snails.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Agriculture; Science and technology; Animal husbandry; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/233
- Credits:
-
- Cutter
- Allen Bowry
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Laurence Williamson
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- 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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How to cite this record
'Dissolving Glass', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 233, 1978. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325968 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)