The City’s Built for Shooting
Series
- Series Name
- Look At Life
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: A film showing the development of some of today’s great film sets, from the time they take shape on the drawing board to when they are destroyed after shooting. Includes the films The LONG SHIPS and 55 DAYS AT PEKING.
- Researcher Comments
- Look At Life Series 17 comprises Issues 209-221.
- Keywords
- Cinema
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
The British National Film Catalogue Vol.1, 1963, p.77
British Movietonews Listing
- Credits:
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- Support services
- Connery Chappell
- Production Co.
- The Rank Organisation Special Features Division
- Commentator
- Tim Turner
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
- info@screenocean.com
- Web
- http://reuters.screenocean.com/
- Phone
- +44(0)1954 262052
- Address
- 124 Horseferry Road,
London
SW1P 2TX - Notes
- British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
- Series held
- View all series held by Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
- 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
'The City’s Built for Shooting', Look At Life Issue No. 210, 1963. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/349836 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)