News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

118

Length of issue (in feet)

512

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Infra Red Telescope
• 2. Meters And Mirrors
• 3. Computerknit

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: An electronic knitting machine takes the clicking of needles a long way from the days of one plain, one purl... Fairisle sweaters are a mere limbering-up exercise. But the designers of knitting patterns are finding that the machine is knitting the designs faster than they can prepare them, so a computer has been given an "eye" and programmed to turn a pattern painted on a piece of paper into terms of stitches that the knitting machine can understand.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Fashion and costume; Engineering; Computers and computing; Design

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/118

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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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