Learning on ScreenScience In The Service Of Art: Mary Rose
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 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. The warship Mary Rose was lost with all hands, in action against the French in 1545. Today she is being raised and restored - but 4 centuries in the sea has taken its toll. Her iron cannons are full of chlorine; they will corrode even in dry air. But, sealed in an industrial furnace, a cannon is bombarded with intensely hot gases - and every trace of chlorine is drawn out. One day, the cannon will be on display in a fully reconstructed Mary Rose.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Science and technology; Salvage; History and archaeology
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/253
- Credits:
-
- 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)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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- 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
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