Alternative Technology
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In the barren landscape of a Welsh slate quarry, a team of scientists are experimenting with the earth’s renewable resources - wind, water and the sun. Diana MacLean meets some of the people involved in a life style that means home grown crops, fish farming and water that, even in cloudy Britain, is heated by the Sun.
- Researcher Comments
- Visits the National Centre for Alternative Technology at Llwyngwern Quarry, Machynlleth in Wales. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 557’ ran the same story.
- Keywords
- Environment; Science and technology
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/961
- Credits:
-
- Support services
- Brian Chaston
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Camera
- Crystal Films
- Presenter
- Diana MacLean
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Lilliana Velasco
- Director
- Nick Hague
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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How to cite this record
'Alternative Technology', This Week In Britain Issue No. 961, 1977. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329202 (Accessed 27 May 2025)