Changing Shape: Oil Clear

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

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: By understanding the importance of shapes and, in some cases, experimenting with new shapes, scientists are alleviating age-old problems. Oil refineries, though important to our society, constitute a serious pollution hazard. They expel an effluent of water, with tiny oil droplets suspended in it. So British scientists created a material which forces the droplets to coalesce. The droplets increase in volume, rise to the surface and are skimmed off.

Keywords

Science and technology; Pollution; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Fuels

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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