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Efficiency: Phoney Dictator

Series

Series Name
Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.
171
Length of issue (in feet)
521
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Efficiency: Combined Efficiency
  2. 2Efficiency: Phoney Dictator
  3. 3Efficiency: Gliding Anchor
  4. 4Efficiency: Non-Drill Fill

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
COI synopsis: Increase your efficiency and you save time, money - and, probably, a lot of unnecessary stress and worry. A few suggestions: A way for the efficient travelling businessman to keep his secretary constantly in his pocket. A miniature remote-control unit operates the recording equipment back in his office via any standard telephone, anywhere in the world. Whether the secretary is in or out, she gets the message!
Keywords
Business and commerce; Communications; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
Written sources
COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 1458/171
Credits:
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Web
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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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