News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

95

Filmed

Nov 1971

Length of issue (in feet)

517

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Fabric Dam
• 2. Cerebral Function Monitor
• 3. Helical Extrusion
• 4. Remcalc

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: A hundred thousand ton tanker can take up to six miles to stop, three miles to turn, two miles to deflect. One plastic disc, and a few eccentric curves, could prevent these leviathans from ploughing into each other and sinking a huge investment beneath the waves (or spreading it over them).

Researcher Comments

A navigational aid to prevent head on collisions in narrow sea lanes

Keywords

Ships and boats; Science and technology; Safety devices; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/95

Credits:

Producer

Anthony Thomson

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Howard Williams

Director

John Lyndon

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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).

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