Learning on ScreenScience In The Service Of Art: Glow Jar
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The elements are literally eating away our cultural heritage. All the beauty and artistry of ancient craftsmen will disappear if we don’t stop the rot. Today’s programme looks at some of the latest techniques which will halt this terrible decay, and preserve our past for the future. Tarnished silver is traditionally cleaned by polishing - but rubbing erodes the metal. A new cleaning method had to be found and the British Museum, with its priceless, ancient silver, came up with the answer - a magical jar. Inside the jar, hydrogen plasma turns the tarnish back into silver - leaving every delicate flourish intact.
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts; Science and technology; Pollution; History and archaeology; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/253
- Credits:
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- Cutter
- Allen Bowry
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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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