News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

234

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Accurate Measurement: Hot Water Plug
• 2. Accurate Measurement: Metal Tester
• 3. Accurate Measurement: Nose Monitor

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: Science can frequently be startling and dramatic. But that drama is often the result of the painstaking gathering of detailed information. This programme explores how really accurate measurement can offer us greater safety or, indeed, improve our welfare. The palate at the back of the throat, is a flap of tissue which shuts like a trap door when we speak. If the palate is lazy however, air flows down the nose, affecting the speech. But a tiny mask, worn over the nose can detect and measure such airflow, helping both speech therapists and patients to train lazy palates to do their job.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/234

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

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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