Off The Shelf Ships
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Boats, like women, are usually individuals. This week Maggie Palmer meets a boat who has 130 identical sisters and then challenges a centuries old superstition.
- Researcher Comments
- The featured boats are SD (Standard Design) 14 cargo ships bulit at Austin and Pcikergill’s Sunderland yard on the Tyne. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Industry and manufacture
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/922
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- Alan Perry
- Support services
- Alison Hawkes
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
- Director
- Nick Hague
- Producer
- Sylvia Eley
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:
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- 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
'Off The Shelf Ships', This Week In Britain Issue No. 922, 1976. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329163 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)