News on Screen

Series

Series Name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue

Issue No.

68

Date Released

1969

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Financial Times - The Changing Industrial Look
• 2. Blue Peter Appeal
• 3. Britain’s Smallest Radar Set
• 4. Bird Cages

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: When B.B.C.'s popular children’s programme "Blue Peter" appealed to their seven and a half million viewers for 140,000 parcels of old clothes - to buy a hospital truck for Afrian children war victims - they reckoned without the zeal of their young helpers. Over one and a half million parcels were sent in - enough for ten hospital trucks.

Keywords

Children; Fundraising; Television

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1394/68

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

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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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