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Steel In The Service Of Mankind

Series

Series Name
Report From London

Issue

Issue No.
11
Date Released
1960
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Steel In The Service Of Mankind

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
COI synopsis: Taking the production of steel for shipbuilding, Hussein Darabaghi talks about the British steel industry. Various examples of industry are seen from foundry to final machining. The film ends with the launching and sea trials of a great new liner.
Researcher Comments
The synopsis is taken from a similar issue released in People and Places, a similar series covering exactly the same topics reported in Arabic rather than Persian.
Keywords
Ships and boats; Industry and manufacture
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Films From Britain Catalogue   First Supplement 1961 p.8 - used for synopsis
The National Archives INF 12   /801
COI Reference
MI 907/11
Credits:
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign Office
Presenter
Hussein Darabaghi
Production Co.
Kinocrat Films Ltd

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