News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

188

Length of issue (in feet)

505

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Bubbles: Kubic Bubbles
• 2. Bubbles: Diesel Bleeder
• 3. Bubbles: Dial A Drop
• 4. Bubbles: Bubble Messages

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Bubbles nowadays are much more than pretty, short-lived diversions. They may also be the key to some of the most startling new techniques in science; and - in the wrong place - they may also spell disaster. Apply a magnetic field to a new crystal and minute bubbles will move through it. A British laboratory has now made these bubbles visible; overlaying a grid on the crystal and driving the bubbles around it, scientists can produce visible "messages" formed from patterns of bubbles.

Keywords

Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/188

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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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