Seaweed
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Seaweed grows in abundance almost all over the world and has been looked upon as simply a weed, as the name implies. But scientists have extracted from it a chemical which has become an integral part of some 3000 different products which are now a part of our everyday lives - food, drink, textiles, chemicals, medicines, cosmetics and further afield. Diana MacLean goes to the west coast of Scotland to see this remarkable natural resource as it passes through all stages from reaping the crop to processing the end product ready for export all over the world.
- Researcher Comments
- NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 549’ ran the same story
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Industry and manufacture
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/964
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Presenter
- Diana MacLean
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
- Director
- Nick Hague
- Camera
- Ogam Films
- Producer
- Patrick Brawn
- Support services
- Zakiya Powell
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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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).
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How to cite this record
'Seaweed', This Week In Britain Issue No. 964, 1977. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329205 (Accessed 19 Jun 2025)