Scanmaster
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Designs into stitches. Scanmaster is a knitting machine which produces patterned garments in four colours automatically at one end from a design painted on squared paper fed in at the other.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Fashion and costume; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/110
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Howard Williams
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Support services
- Ian Morrison
- Producer
- Ian Morrison
- Presenter
- Marion Foster
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:
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).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
How to cite this record
'Scanmaster', Tomorrow Today Issue No. 110. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/329530 (Accessed 23 Feb 2026)