British Records
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The first gramophone record made in Britain was mostly an inaudible crackle. Gail Spiro goes to Abbey Road recording studios to watch a new pop group recording their latest number and then watches the factory process to learn how these sounds are transformed into a record.
- Researcher Comments
- NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Music and dance; Engineering
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/907
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Gail Spiro
- Director
- Patrick Wyand
- Cutter
- Peter Day
- Camera
- Platypus Films
- Support services
- Zakiya Powell
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- 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).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
How to cite this record
'British Records', This Week In Britain Issue No. 907, 1976. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329148 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)