Quicker By Code: Carpet Mosaics

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

176

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

521

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Quicker By Code: Anti-Theft Paint
2. 2Quicker By Code: Eye On The Road
3. 3Quicker By Code: Carpet Mosaics
4. 4Quicker By Code: Map Master

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: New ways of handling information that simplify and speed things up. And the key, in each case, is a code! Really deep, patterned carpets have always been an expensive luxury. Now an ingenious way of coding patterns allows these carpets to be made quicker and cheaper than ever before.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Inventions and discoveries; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/176

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

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Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

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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