Perception: Steadyscope
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Of all our senses, our sight is probably the most important. In this issue we look at looking - at new developments and new research which stress the crucial role of vision in helping us to interpret the world aound us. Powerful binoculars with gyroscopically stabilised image. Now, even from a vibrating helicopter, we get a rock steady close-up view; a view which could sometimes mean the difference between life and death...
- Keywords
- Aircraft; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/167
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- James Hubbard
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- 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
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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