Survival Bag

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

120

Length of issue (in feet)

440

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Survival Bag
2. 2Phantom Footprints
3. 3Sailing Simulator

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: A survival pack the size of a soap tablet, and weighing rather less. It’s a form of sleeping bag made of mylar, the plastic of space exploration and its reflective surface keeps the heat in and the cold out... it can even keep your dinner warm.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Emergency services; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/120

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Fred Goodland

This series is held by:

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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