Living River
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Until a few years ago London’s River Thames was dead. For centuries rivers everywhere were the natural place for people to get rid of their rubbish. But pollution kills oxygen and without it nothing, not even a single fish, can survive. Today the Thames is the cleanest metropolitan river anywhere in the world and the fish have returned. Gail Spiro takes a trip along the Thames on a new floating laboratory to find out how London brought its river back to life and won the war against pollution.
- Researcher Comments
- Locations featured include Tower Bridge, the Docks, Thames Water Authority’s floating laboratory, and West Thurrock Power Station. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Pollution
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/909
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- Alan Bendig
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Eric Halliday
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Gail Spiro
- Cutter
- John Wilson
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Fax
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- 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
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How to cite this record
'Living River', This Week In Britain Issue No. 909, 1976. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329150 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)