Big Brother On The Highway

Series

Series Name
Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.
2
Date Released
1969
Filmed
May 1969
Length of issue (in feet)
460
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Face Of The Seventies
  2. 2Big Brother On The Highway
  3. 3Doze Or Daze?

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 3
Summary
COI synopsis: Computers and television eyes linked to the most advanced system of signalling equipment give the British traffic police, on a stretch of super motorway, electronic back up as sophisticated as air traffic control on the airways.
Keywords
Communications; Science and technology; Road transport; Computers and computing
Written sources
COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 1458/2
Credits:
Producer
Anthony Thomson
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sound
Chris Wilden
Camera
Dick Ewen
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Presenter
Howard Williams
Presenter
Ian Morrison
Producer
Janice Willett / Kay
Presenter
Marion Foster
Director
Mark Lawton
Director
Rosamund Davies

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Phone
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Fax
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Address
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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).
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