Learning on ScreenChristie’s
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Take the oldest fine arts sales room in the world, combine it with what it’s now selling - Captain Bligh’s log book after he’d been set adrift from the Bounty - and you must expect some excitement. Maggie Palmer visits Christie’s and watches the tension build up.
- Researcher Comments
- NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Shops and shopping; Arts and crafts; Business and commerce; History and archaeology
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/942
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Camera
- Crystal Films
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
- Director
- Nick Hague
- Producer
- Patrick Brawn
- Support services
- Zakiya Powell
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
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- 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
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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