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  1. Remote Control Loco

    Date released
    18 Mar 1974
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2337
    NoS ID
    030274
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Remote Control Loco - Colour. DESCRIPTION: A prototype Remote Control System, designed for mine railways. SHOTLIST: GV locomotive pushing trucks with man at controls. SV man stepping...

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  2. TV Traffic Control

    Date released
    15 Aug 1960
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    294
    NoS ID
    120933
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NoS Summary - The city of Durham has the world’s first CCTV traffic control system.

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  3. Latest Traffic Control System

    Date released
    18 Nov 1937
    Series name
    Universal Talking News
    Issue no
    768
    NoS ID
    143773
    Story no
    5 / 9

    Children learn traffic sense in LCC school.

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  4. Leave It to Electronics

    Date released
    17 Dec 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1750
    NoS ID
    024922
    Story no
    3 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Leave It to Electronics. DESCRIPTION: The Decca Radar has produced a system to get you around traffic electronically. Detector cables in the roadway transmit impulses from vehicles...

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  5. Sorting It All Out

    Date released
    21 Dec 1964
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1855
    NoS ID
    025798
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sorting It All Out. DESCRIPTION: The sorting system at Mount Pleasant in London seems rather antiquated compared with the electronic sorting system in Nuremberg, which deals with...

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  6. The Dial System

    Date released
    13 Oct 1932
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    236
    NoS ID
    139125
    Story no
    4 / 8
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet

    Youth inventor demonstrates wireless control of model boat at Denver.

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  7. Risk: Computer Cops

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    174
    NoS ID
    325737
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: A few new approaches to reducing risk. The most advanced computer control system in the world for dealing with emergency calls to the police. In a futuristic control room every facility...

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  8. Extending Our Control: Cobalt Precision

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    144
    NoS ID
    325602
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: In spite of the complex controls of technology there are still areas where our control is lost - thousands of people die every year from disease, fire, accidents on the road. This issue...

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  9. Computers And Control

    Date released
    1965
    Series name
    Frontier
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    324973
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Christopher Strachey, Fellow of Churchill College and an authority on computers, traces their development up to the ATLAS fast digital computers used by London and Manchester Universities....

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  10. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    27 Mar 1969
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    69/26
    NoS ID
    113514
    Story no
    2 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Speed can be great - it can also be dangerous, especially when motorway users ignore bad conditions and thunder on a breakneck rates. A computerised control system costing over £200,000 has recently been...

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