Learning on ScreenUnder The Surface: Copper-Bottomed Boat
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Water means life for myriads of creatures. It means life and danger for man. This programme examines how we can keep a check on the under-water world: and safely explore it at the same time. A barnacle clinging to a rock looks harmless enough, but masses of them welded to the hull of a ship creates drag - increasing fuel bills by as much as 35%. Copper kills barnacles - but its a pricey poison. Now, British scientists have a cheap and deadly answer. They wove fine strands of copper into a mesh and embedded it in a tough plastic - it’s powerful enough to keep barnacles off a North Sea oil rig!
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Marine
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/262
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Fred Goodland
- Cutter
- Ian Lake
- Cutter
- Mike Murray
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 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).
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