Changing Shape: Circular Car

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

194

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

1. 2Changing Shape: Circular Car
2. 3Changing Shape: Oil Clear
3. 4Changing Shape: Underground Wings
4. 5Changing Shape: Learning By Heart

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: By understanding the importance of shapes and, in some cases, experimenting with new shapes, scientists are alleviating age-old problems. What do you need in a town car? It’s a fundamental question that has been asked by a group of schoolboys. Their reasoning has led them to develop, at school, a car that is quite unlike the conventional - it is round. Driven by two independent motors, it is highly manoeuvrable, it’s very cheap and it’s great fun.

Keywords

Education and training; Vehicles; Science and technology; Motor vehicles; Engineering; Design

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/194

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
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footage.films@bfi.org.uk

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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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