Backing Winners
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The National Research Development Council and a look at some of the inventions they have backed.
- Researcher Comments
- According to the script, inventions featured include the Hovercraft, an automatic glass cutting machine invented by Colin Mayers, who is interviewed, and a thermographic sensor used for testing the freshness of fish
- Keywords
- Organisations; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries; Design
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
BUFVC Special Collections TWIB Files
- COI Reference
- MI 936/886
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Presenter
- Esmeralda Reyna
- Camera
- Fleet Street Films
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Support services
- Jennifer Lucas
- Presenter
- Nadim Sawalha
- Presenter
- Penny Croucher
- Director
- Robert Malcolm
- Producer
- Sylvia Eley
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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