News on Screen

Series

Series Name

This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.

843

Date Released

1975

Length of issue (in feet)

172

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Bank Of England

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: From its mercenary beginnings, funding William of Orange’s campaign against Louis XIV of France, the Bank of England has grown into one of the most sophisticated and reliable banking institutions in the world. Mandy Cuthbert learns how the Bank of England goes about its business, how its branch representatives are called agents and not managers; how it turns out six million new banknotes a day and, more quirkily, how it burns 6 million old ones... just to heat up its own building.

Researcher Comments

NB: Information drawn from the Australian version

Keywords

Politics and government; Economics; Business and commerce

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 936/843

Credits:

Presenter

Alexander Quijano

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Director

Eric Halliday

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Mandy Cuthbert

Cutter

Maurice Tarling

Producer

Mike Ruggins

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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