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Chris Evans

Series

Series Name
The Pacemakers

Issue

Issue No.
1
Date Released
1969
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Chris Evans

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
COI synopsis: Dr. Chris Evans is an experimental psychologist, specialsing in visual perception He works as a Research Fellow at Britain’s mammoth National Physical Laboratory. These bald facts do little to convey the atmosphere of this restless, energetic, tough intellectual. He wants to know exactly how our brains work, what they choose to work on, and why. He builds experiment on experiment, in a dozen different fields, to pursue his aims. His major laboratory work is on the detail of visual perception, the examination of how the eye sees and how the brain analyses the information it gets. He studies computers, to pursue the parallels between human and artificial brains. And he studies the relationship between them - the ways in which people and machines interact, an increasingly urgent study in the day and age. He writes on philosophical and scientific subjects, he does television shows to get the scientists message over to the layman, he pursues theories about dreams. Chris Evans is an unconventional academic, an unconventional dresser, an unconventional thinker. His strength of character and of aim are obvious. This film is an impression of Chris Evans and reflects his own life-style, urgent, fast-paced and questing.
Keywords
Communications; Science and technology; Writers
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Viewing Copy - BFI National Archive
COI Microfilm Roll 16 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 1461/1
Credits:
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Phone
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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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