Silver Swaddler
Series
- Series Name
- London Line
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: About a silver swaddling blanket developed by a British doctor for use with premature babies. Adapted from the aluminium coated insulating blankets used by modern explorers, mountaineers and astronauts to prevent heat loss. Mike Egon and Glenna Filo report.
- Local distribution only
- New Commonwealth version
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Children; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1257/191
- Credits:
-
- Editor
- Anna Kaliski
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Commonwealth Affairs Office
- Director
- Eric Beecroft
- Sponsor
- Foreign Office
- Presenter
- Glenna Filo-Jones / Filo
- Support services
- Janice Willett / Kay
- Producer
- Janice Willett / Kay
- Presenter
- John Bankole-Jones
- Support services
- Ruth Steele
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
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How to cite this record
'Silver Swaddler', London Line Issue No. 191, 1968. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/350414 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)