Laing News Review

Dates

1954 - 1955

Category

Cinemagazine - Industrial

History

Laing News Review was intended to inform social groups and educational audiences about the work and culture of the company. Issues told a ‘story of work in progress or recently completed, both in this country and overseas.' Each issue was in colour, Kodachrome, and lasted around 28 minutes. The first issue featured nine items including stories describing the action taken to deal with the 1953 flood which devastated parts of the east coast of Britain and the construction of the Lusaka-Chirundu road in Northern Rhodesia. Later issues tended to deal with fewer subjects in more depth. Just six issues were made, released between January 1954 and December 1955.

Provenance

Records for this series were constructed from Laing company notes held by the BFI.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

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).

Series held

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