News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Home and Away

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

1957

Length of issue (in feet)

500

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Pipes at Paisley
• 2. Calder Hall to Hinkley Point
• 3. Down Under
• 4. The Little Fleet

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: Calder Hall was the first full-scale nuclear power station in the world and in its design and construction Babcock had an important part.
Now the Company is playing an even larger part in the design and construction of the world’s largest nuclear power station, at Hinkley Point in Somerset, England. The film, after glimpses of Calder Hall, takes us to the site of the Hinkley Point station where work is in hand preparing for roads and foundations; and includes impressions of the station as it will appear when completed.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Industry and manufacture; Nuclear energy; Town and country planning

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Synopses of the Babcock Film Magazines booklet   p13. Used for synopsis
Scottish Screen Archive database   Ref.1521

Credits:

Sponsor

Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.

Producer

Cyril Randell

Director

Peter Ward

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.

Editor

Terence Twigg

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Web

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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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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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