Rhodesian Spotlight
- Dates
- 1955 - 1959
- Category
- Cinemagazine - Colonial
- History
- Rhodesian Spotlight was a cinemagazine produced by the Central African Film Unit and distributed within the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It continued to be produced under the titles Federal Spotlight and Spotlight until 1963. The Spotlight series were basically designed to promote the Federation both at home and abroad through a topical mix of stories and was generally regarded as the most important activity of the unit from the mid 1950s.
- Provenance
- British Film Institute Film & Television Database; film production documents at the BFI National Archive and BUFVC.
Films in this series can be obtained from:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- 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
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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