News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

273

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Surprise Solution: Wet Wound
• 2. Surprise Solution: Tubular Wells
• 3. Surprise Solution: Cyclops

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: How to avoid the agonies of removing a dressing; the expense of replacing a water pump that’s dropped from a corroded pipe. How students spread throughout the country can have a classroom discussion - some surprise solutions. "Fresh water for everyone" is the aim of the United Nations within the next decade. A flexible, plastic pipe could prove to be a major factor in this overall achievement. Until now, steel pipes, with great tensile strength have been used in subterranean wells. But a British engineer watched corrosion eat into such a pipe, depositing an expensive pump into a watery grave. His recently developed pipe is plastic, strong enough to support a heavy pump, easy to install, easy to maintain and won’t rust.

Keywords

Science and technology; Engineering; Design

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/273

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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).

Series held

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