A Matter Of Taste

Series

Series Name
This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.
797
Date Released
1974
Filmed
Apr 1974
Length of issue (in feet)
200
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1A Matter Of Taste

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
COI synopsis: The preservation and processing of food have revolutionised our eating habits. Michele Brown looks into some aspects of food technology, tastes one of Britain’s newest national dishes - the pizza - now being frozen in vast quantities by liquid nitrogen, and talks to Dr Magnus Pyke, a leading authority on food technology and an entertaining and controversial talker.
Researcher Comments
NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
Keywords
Food and cooking; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 936/797
Credits:
Production Co.
AI Films
Camera
AI Films
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Presenter
Esmeralda Reyna
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Support services
Mary Sprent
Presenter
Michele Brown
Director
Nick Hague
Producer
Tony Hinton

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
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Address
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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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