Learning on ScreenThe Year Of The Rose
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: 1976 marks the centenary of the National Rose Society, dedicated to the protection and cultivation of this beautiful flower. This week Maggie Palmer visits a prominent rose breeder and discovers how he has often succeeded in improving on Nature’s original blueprint, the wild rose.
- Researcher Comments
- Features Jack Harkness and his wife and their Rose Gardens at Hitchin, Hertfordshire. c
- Keywords
- Horticulture
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/917
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Support services
- Jennifer Lucas
- Presenter
- Lilliana Velasco
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
- Director
- Patrick Wyand
- Camera
- Platypus Films
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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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).
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