Micro TV Camera
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: A television camera so small that it can be built into a microscope is allowing students to watch delicate eye operations at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. The TV Unit is so robust that it is also being used to inspect boiler pipes and the intakes of Concorde’s jet engines.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Aircraft; Science and technology; Photography; Engineering; Television
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/28
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Presenter
- Marion Foster
- Editor
- Peter Greenaway
- Cutter
- Peter Greenaway
- Presenter
- Roger Cook
- Commentator
- Roger Cook
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
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
How to cite this record
'Micro TV Camera', Tomorrow Today Issue No. 28, 1970. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/350897 (Accessed 17 Jun 2025)