News on Screen

Series

Series Name

London Line

Issue

Issue No.

379

Date Released

1972

Length of issue (in feet)

500

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Royal Mint
• 2. Cards For Africans
• 3. Porto-Jet Inoculation
• 4. Sand In Your Shoes

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: London Line visits the Mint in Cardiff to see how skilled craftsmen and sophisticated machinery produce coins, many of them for African countries - bags and bags and bags of them.

Local distribution only

New Commonwealth version

Keywords

Politics and government; Economics; Industry and manufacture

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1257/379

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Presenter

Elizabeth Adare

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Jumoke Debayo

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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