Results: Stories
10 results found for '"COI Microfilm Roll 16 [BFI National Archive]"' in Footage or Written Source.
Sir Basil Spence
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 327144
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: Sir Basil Spence is an architect, one of the most eminent in Britain and the world. He sprang into fame when his design won the open competition to rebuild Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by...
Lord Stokes
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 327145
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: Lord Stokes of Leyland - the name and title have a sonorous, very British ring to them. The man who carries them is British alright but not quite the type of Briton you might imagine. He’s...
John Sharp
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 10
- NoS ID
- 327146
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: 1970 sees the centenary of the State education system in Britain. A hundred years ago Members of Britain’s Parliament became worried that earlier voting reform laws would give the vote to all...
Chris Evans
- Date released
- 1969
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 327137
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: Dr. Chris Evans is an experimental psychologist, specialsing in visual perception He works as a Research Fellow at Britain’s mammoth National Physical Laboratory. These bald facts do little...
Gillian Lynne
- Date released
- 1969
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 327138
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: Gillian Lynne is a choreographer, she designs movements to music. Trained in classical ballet, she became a star of the prestigious Royal Ballet, but felt that the disciplines of classical...
Eric Laithwaite
- Date released
- 1969
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 327139
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: Professor Laithwaite is Professor of Heavy Electrical Engineering at Imperial College, London. Although he is experienced in all aspects of electrical engineering his speciality is linear...
Iann Barron
- Date released
- 1969
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 4
- NoS ID
- 327140
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: Iann Barron is thirty-two years old. A smooth fringe dives from the top of his head to his eyebrows, where his owl glasses try to distract attention from an astounding ski-jump chin. He has no...
Dan Smith
- Date released
- 1969
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 327141
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: Dan Smith is the son of a miner from England’s North-East industrial belt. The chaos of industrial reorganisation, decline and depression which he saw there in the thirties lit a fire in his...
Colin Chapman
- Date released
- 1969
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 6
- NoS ID
- 327142
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: In twenty years Colin Chapman has worked his way into the millionaire class by his single-minded fascination with making cars that go quickly. From his earliest days car racing enthusiasts have...
John English
- Date released
- 1969
- Series name
- The Pacemakers
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 327143
- Story no
- 1 / 1
COI synopsis: John English is a solidly built, argumentative, cheerful, bearded man in his fifties. He’s the founder and guiding light of the Midlands Arts Centre for young people in Birmingham, England,...