News on Screen

Series

Series Name

This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.

881

Date Released

1975

Filmed

Oct 1975

Length of issue (in feet)

179

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. China Town

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: For more than 200 years one small English town has been the centre of the world pottery trade. Penny Croucher visits Stoke-on-Trent to look at an industry that combines old traditional skills with modern technology to produce a million dollar world business in fine china. She also tries her hand at throwing a pot and jumping on a bone china plate.

Researcher Comments

According to the script, the programme visits the Wedgwood and Coalport factories in Stoke-on-Trent. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version

Keywords

Arts and crafts; Industry and manufacture

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 936/881

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Director

Eric Halliday

Presenter

Esmeralda Reyna

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Support services

Jennifer Lucas

Presenter

Nadim Sawalha

Presenter

Penny Croucher

Producer

Sylvia Eley

Commentator

Sylvia Eley

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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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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