News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

52

Date Released

1970

Length of issue (in feet)

492

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Steel Yourself
• 2. Stairclimber
• 3. Flatalite
• 4. Cheap Protein

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Walking sticks that come apart and plug into powered banisters to help you up or downstairs; a swinging seat on your wheels which can automatically climb stairs; a chair that revolves or moves sideways, backwards and forwards at the touch of a lever - just some of the ingenious ideas turned into practice by the Department of Engineering at the University of London.

Keywords

Education and training; Health and medicine; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 36 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/52

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Mike Willcox

Presenter

Paddy Feeny

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).

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