Boating
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: This week Maggie Palmer looks at some of the varied craft that sail, hover, paddle or are propelled through the even more varied waters of Britain.
- Researcher Comments
- Shows a variety of leisure craft in action, including: canoes, dinghys, powerboats, yachts and barges, as well as model boats. Includes footage from the COI’s cinemagazine ‘Roundabout’. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Ships and boats
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/919
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Eric Halliday
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Lilliana Velasco
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
- 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
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How to cite this record
'Boating', This Week In Britain Issue No. 919, 1976. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329160 (Accessed 08 Feb 2025)