Learning on ScreenAnti-Locust
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Locusts - no, they haven’t hit Britain, but at London’s Centre for Overseas Pest Research locusts are breeding in their thousands. This week Pam Rhodes finds out why - and sees how scientists at the Centre are initiating new ways of destroying the all-devouring locust before it gobbles our food supplies.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes brief extracts from the BBC’s programme: "Horizon: Year Of The Locust". NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Insects
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/877
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- Alan Bendig
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Presenter
- Esmeralda Reyna
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Support services
- Mary Sprent
- Presenter
- Nadim Sawalha
- Presenter
- Pam Rhodes
- Support services
- Stephen Halliday
- Producer
- Sylvia Eley
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
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- 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
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