Dateline Britain

Dates

1959 - 1959

Category

Cinemagazine - Government

History

Dateline Britain was a short-lived series of four issues, produced by the Central Office of Information and sponsored by the Commonwealth Relations Office for distribution on television in Canada. This was done in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with the first issue, FACE OF YOUTH broadcast in February 1959. The series was presented by Canadian actor and actress, Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly, who examined a single theme of contemporary Britain in each of the 28-minute issues. These were youth culture, the role of women in British society, London and Britain’s scientists, each of which was explored through a series of interviews, mostly shot on location.

Provenance

The data for this series was compiled from the following sources: The COI catalogue cards, the Films From Britain catalogue and film copies held at the BFI National Archive, production files (INF 6) and monthly divisional reports of the COI (INF 8) held at The National Archives.

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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