Frontier (Colour series)

Dates

1969 - 1969

Category

Cinemagazine - Government

History

Frontier (Colour series) was a short-lived series of 5 colour films on science and technology produced by the Central Office of Information on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The films were made by a variety of companies, including United Motion Pictures (London) Ltd and New Decade Films, Viewpoint Productions. Each 13 minute film dealt with an aspect of current British research such as radio astronomy, research into car safety, the uses of radio isotopes. It was produced in seven foreign language editions including Arabic, French, German, Thai and Latin American Spanish. It was replaced by the long-running science series Living Tomorrow.

Provenance

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

Other Information

See separate entry on Frontier

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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