Map Survey

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

539

Date Released

22 Apr 1965

Date recorded

26 Feb 1965

Length of issue (in feet)

683

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Map Survey
2. 2Guitar Factory
3. 3Unit Four Plus Two

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: See a man plotting. Meet an unobtrusive army of men who spend their time spying out the land and plotting - maps. We are the world’s map-makers and to make the printing plates the Ordinance Survey use the biggest camera you’ve ever seen - one bigger than a fair-sized room. This photographic equipment at Southampton is unique and we see their printing press, manufactured in Leeds, that turns out 5000 detailed and accurate coloured maps an hour. We realise that if we hadn’t been famous for anything else map-making would have been enough to put Britain on the map...

Keywords

Industry and manufacture

Locations

Southampton; England; Hampshire

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Richard Norton

Length of story (in feet)

218

Story extras:

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