No-Needle Knitting

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

218

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Conducting Concrete
2. 2Mouse Detector
3. 3No-Needle Knitting
4. 4Clearscan

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Sweaters knitted from feathers and pineapple stalks are on the way. A new kind of knitting machine can knit a much wider range of fibres than conventional machines. The new knitting machine has only two moving parts, and no needles!

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Fashion and costume; Engineering; Design

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/218

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Maurice Tarling

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

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

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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