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  1. Plastic Glass Gets Demobbed

    Date released
    1 Nov 1945
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1531
    NoS ID
    039760
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Perspex, used in wartime for airplane turrets, is now available for domestic use.

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  2. Life in Plastic (2008)

    Director
    Bertram Verhaag
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 26 minutes), £39.00

    Most types of plastic that we use every day are nearly non-degradable, and as time goes by they release many of their (often hormonally efficacious) additives into the environment. Then spread by wind, water...

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  3. News in Flashes: Stop Press

    Date released
    14 Aug 1950
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2030
    NoS ID
    042532
    Story no
    3 / 9

    Amazing plastic model of woman shows digestive organs in operation.

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  4. News Flashes - Stop Press

    Date released
    7 Oct 1943
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1315
    NoS ID
    038856
    Story no
    2 / 7

    America discovers new plastic, substitute for rubber.

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  5. Working with Thermoplastics (1977 Video)

    Director
    Derek Cunningham
    Producer
    Julian Dinsell
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 16 min.

    Shows the techniques needed to make the wide diversity of plastic articles in everyday use - extrusion, injection moulding, callendering, rotational moulding, and thermoforming - and shows how these methods...

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  6. Peace Work

    Date released
    21 Oct 1946
    Series name
    Universal News
    Issue no
    1697
    NoS ID
    148952
    Story no
    2 / 5

    Plastic shoes from gun turrets, toys and dolls from sten guns and barrage balloons.

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  7. Metal Foam

    Date released
    1971
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    71
    NoS ID
    351148
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Take a piece of plastic foam - electroplate it with copper, zinc even gold - burn off the plastic and you’re left with one of industries’ most exciting new materials, metal foam. Its...

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  8. These Dolls Earn Dollars

    Date released
    30 Aug 1948
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1826
    NoS ID
    041218
    Story no
    7 / 8

    New type plastic dolls, manufactured in London, are in big demand by Americans.

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  9. Marked Tracks (1974 Film)

    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The archaeologist has not only to uncover the traces of past civilisations and interpret them but he must also secure them and protect them against future decay. In this task, chemistry is one of his most...

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  10. News in Flashes

    Date released
    25 Nov 1954
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2477
    NoS ID
    045416
    Story no
    4 / 10

    New plastic is material of pneumatic suit to repel atomic rays.

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