News on Screen

Series

Series Name

This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.

902

Date Released

1976

Filmed

Feb 1976

Length of issue (in feet)

175

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Orchids

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Britain was the first country to cultivate orchids. They were to be found in "gentlemen’s" collections which gave them their rather exclusive reputation - but they are in fact the largest family of plants in the world. Gail Spiro visits a nursery in Oxfordshire which breeds one particular type of orchid, "The Lady’s Slipper" and learns how years of cross breeding have produced a variety of colours and sizes that were never to be found growing in the wild.

Researcher Comments

The location is Ratcliffe Orchids Ltd of Chilton, Didcot. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version

Keywords

Horticulture

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 936/902

Credits:

Camera

Alan Bendig

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Director

Eric Halliday

Presenter

Esmeralda Reyna

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Gail Spiro

Cutter

Maurice Tarling

Producer

Sylvia Eley

Support services

Zakiya Powell

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Fax

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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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