Learning on ScreenForeign Office
Profile
- Dates
- 1894-1968
- Role
- Sponsor; Camera
- Newsreels / Cinemagazines
- British Calendar; British Sporting Personalities; Calendar; The Enthusiasts; Letter From London; London Line; London Line (Colour series 1); London Line (Colour series 2); Middle East Newspots; Moslems In Britain
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- Search for all stories where Foreign Office is credited
Career
The Foreign Office sponsored several magazine series, produced by the Central Office of Information [qv]. These included: Transatlantic Teleview (1954-58); Topic, also known as Meet The British, (1958-59); British Calendar (1959-1964) and Roundabout (1962-1974), with the Commonwealth Relations Office [qv] and Colonial Office [qv]. It was amalgamated with the Commonwealth Affairs Office [qv] in October1968 to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [qv].
Sources
D. Butler and G. Butler ‘Twentieth-Century British Political Facts 1900-2000’ (Macmillan Press, 2000).
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