News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

23

Length of issue (in feet)

472

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Thunderbird Fashions Are Go
• 2. Skin Bank
• 3. Radiation Detector
• 4. A Steel Wig?
• 5. It’s "Happening" In Steel

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

COI synopsis: In Britain one steel company alone produces enough steel tubes in a year, to stretch two thirds of the way to the moon. From the exotic - a steel wig - to the prosaic - breweries and oil refineries - the techniques for perfecting steel tubes make fascinating film.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/23

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Howard Williams

Presenter

Ian Morrison

Presenter

Marion Foster

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).

Series held

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