News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

117

Length of issue (in feet)

591

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Earth Resources Rocket
• 2. Atlas Of The Earth
• 3. Leafless Pea
• 4. Water Resources

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Water is vital to our food and to us, yet even in countries with heavy rainfall we are close to using more than Nature can supply. In North Wales they’re using computer control and rain detecting radar to help conserve their supplies.

Keywords

Environment; Science and technology; Engineering; Computers and computing

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/117

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Howard Williams

Cutter

Peter Day

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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