Learning on ScreenWomen
Series
- Series Name
- London Line
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: A programme on the position of women fifty years after British women were given the right to vote. Contains studio sequences, historic film of the Suffragettes, TV and film stills and footage and interviews drawn from past London Line New Commonwealth programmes. People featured include: Jeanette Smythe MaCauley from Sierra Leone; Miss Uganda 1967; Anne Mallalieu, first woman president of Cambridge University Union; Margaret Busby, publisher; Shade Thomas, Nigerian fashion designer; Ross Hannaman, singer; Clara Odugbesau, Nigerian student; Rose Hart, Ghanaian athlete; Prof. Dorothy Hodgkin, interview by Gilbert Addy after she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry; Dr. Letitia Obeng, head of a Ghanaian reseach institute; and Johnny Kwango, wrestler.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes extracts from: Time To Remember (Pathe); The Avengers; Taming Of The Shrew (Columbia); Hard Day’s Night
- Local distribution only
- New Commonwealth version
- Keywords
- Women
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1257/170
- Credits:
-
- Editor
- Anna Kaliski
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Commonwealth Affairs Office
- Director
- Eric Beecroft
- Sponsor
- Foreign Office
- Presenter
- Hannah Bright Taylor
- Presenter
- Israel Wamala
- Support services
- Janice Willett / Kay
- Producer
- Janice Willett / Kay
- Support services
- Linda Horne
- Editor
- Renee Serlin
- Support services
- Ruth Steele
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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