Iann Barron

Series

Series Name

The Pacemakers

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Iann Barron

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Iann Barron is thirty-two years old. A smooth fringe dives from the top of his head to his eyebrows, where his owl glasses try to distract attention from an astounding ski-jump chin. He has no self consciousness, and a confidence and charm of which his is refreshingly unaware. Iann Barron is managing director of a highly successful company in the cutthroat [sic] world of high-technology small computers, the whole thing, company computer and all, is his brain child. He started with no product, no money, no business acumen; just an idea for a design for a special computer. A few brilliant young electronics friends joined him and he set out raising finance. This film sets out to show what sort of man persuades businessmen to part with hundreds of thousands of pounds, pursues relentlessly the logic of his ideas in electronics and in business, and, in fact, applies computer logic techniques to running a business. His factory is original too: completely open-plan with sales and administrative staff and manufacturing staff all sharing the same areas: half the staff are research and development; where the size has doubled every year so far, and where the young man in pink tee shirt and sandles sitting cross-legged on a desk listening intently and pouncing with devastatingly logical solution to some problem is the managing director Iann Barron.

Keywords

Business and commerce; Communications; Science and technology

Written sources

The National Archives INF 6   /2196
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Viewing Copy - BFI National Archive
COI Microfilm Roll 16 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1461/4

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Commentator

Dennis Cleary

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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