Learning on ScreenRoyal Mint
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: For two thousand years the Royal Mint, in Britain, has been making coins. So Maggie Palmer thought it was time she went and saw what happened. She came at a good moment. Not only does the Mint now produce coins for many other countries all over the world but is, at the moment, busy with a special Crown piece for the Queen’s Jubilee Year - in fact several such coins since a lot of other countries are also interested in minting their own Jubilee coinage. But the usual work of the Mint itself, with its unusual security checks and up to the minute machinery, still rolls out each day the ordinary coins many of us will soon be using. Maggie Palmer passed by a fortune by the time she finished her tour.
- Researcher Comments
- NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 538’ contains subtantial footage from this film
- Keywords
- Royalty; Commemorations; Politics and government; Economics; Industry and manufacture
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/944
- Credits:
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- Support services
- Alison Hawkes
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Camera
- Gazelle Films
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
- Director
- Nick Hague
- Producer
- Patrick Brawn
This series is held by:
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).
- Series held
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