Learning on ScreenBritish Press
Series
- Series Name
- Looking At Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: A digest of the complex organisation behind the production and distribution of Britain’s national newspapers. In a tour of Fleet Street the film covers news-gathering from Britain and overseas, copy-tasting, the work of Night and Features Editors, Editor-in-Chief and Advertising Manager, linotype operator and dispatch department; and follows the nightly oepration which transports newspapers by road, rail and air to readers at home and abroad.
- Keywords
- Mass media; Newspapers
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Films From Britain Catalogue 1964-65, p 167. Used for synopsis.
- COI Reference
- MI 920/23
- Credits:
-
- Production Co.
- British Movietonews Ltd
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Colonial 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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