Learning on ScreenRods, Poles, Perches - Goodbye!
Series
- Series Name
- London Line (Colour series 2)
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: ... and welcome to metres by 1975 when Britain finally goes all metric. Ian Morrison reports on operation metrication, and Michael Smee talks to the man in charge of the big changeover - Britain’s Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Economics; Business and commerce; Industry and manufacture
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1394/45
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Commonwealth Affairs Office
- Sponsor
- Foreign Office
- Producer
- Ian Morrison
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Director
- Mark Lawton
- Presenter
- Michael Smee
- Camera
- Peter Theirry
- Sound
- Phil Jay
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
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