News on Screen

Series

Series Name

This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.

1008

Date Released

1978

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Strange Customs

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Customising your car can mean anything from a totally hand built job costing thousands of pounds to just doing special paint work on a set of giant size wheels. Our reporter takes a ride in some of the jazziest jobs on the road and finds out what it’s like to really cruise!

Researcher Comments

Includes a brief extract from Rellim Clarke Associates’ film ‘Cruisin’' and from the BBC’s ‘Multi Coloured Swap Shop: Custom Cars’ programme. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 571’ ran the same story

Keywords

Vehicles; Motor vehicles

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 936/1008

Credits:

Producer

Annabel Olivier Wright

Editor

Annabel Olivier Wright

Support services

Annabel Olivier Wright

Director

Bill Metcalfe

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Lyndall Hobbs

Camera

Platypus Films

Cutter

R.I. Phillips

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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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).

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