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Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: It’s London, nine thirty in the morning. And in a fashionable jeweller’s the day has an unwelcome start: armed robbery. For the police... the hunt is on for the villain. And the new techniques which lead them to the right man, are techniques which make use of every aid technology can offer. Techniques like: - a computerised system for generating a face. A new approach to the problem of translating a witness’s memory into a picture which can help the police - a dramatic new method for recovering fingerprints from difficult materials; and even from articles which have been soaked in a river - an electron microscope used as a super-magnifying glass; identifying the incriminating traces on a gunman’s hand by their distinctive shape - finding the wealth of clues hidden in a bloodstain. From one tiny drop of blood biologists can now build up a profile of the man the police want. And one guilty man is successfully plucked from a city of millions.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Police; Crime; Inventions and discoveries
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/219
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Peter Greenaway
- Editor
- Peter Greenaway
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- For BFI National Archive enquiries:
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
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - 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).
- Series held
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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