News on Screen

Series

Series Name

This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.

863

Date Released

1975

Filmed

May 1975

Length of issue (in feet)

176

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. District Heating

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Alison Hawkes’ story this week is a load of old rubbish. But this rubbish provides heating and hot water for one hundred thousand people living in Nottingham. And in our pre-wrapped flavour-sealed society rubbish is one fuel that’s never going to be in short supply.

Researcher Comments

Locations include the Eastcroft Incinerator and St Anne’s housing estatein Nottinghamshire. Includes library footage from the National Coal Board. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version

Keywords

Environment; Engineering; Fuels; Energy resources

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 936/863

Credits:

Camera

AI Films

Production Co.

AI Films

Support services

Alison Hawkes

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Presenter

Esmeralda Reyna

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Support services

Jennifer Lucas

Director

Patrick Wyand

Commentator

Sylvia Eley

Producer

Sylvia Eley

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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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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