Learning on ScreenLight Fantastic
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Maggie Palmer saw a queue outside London’s Royal Academy announcing an exhibition under the title "Light Fantastic". So she went in to find out what was going on and discovered an exhibition of objects that weren’t there. It was her first experience of holograms by laser light, 3-dimensional visual records of objects, made without the aid of a camera. The recent breakthrough in perfecting the hologram was made at Loughborough University in the English Midlands. Nick Phillips, senior physics lecturer "recreates" a telephone as we watch. Maggie’s conclusion: holography could replace photography one day and revolutionise much of our lives.
- Researcher Comments
- NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 545’ ran the same story.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries; Exhibitions and shows
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/957
- Credits:
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- Support services
- Brian Chaston
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Eddy Newstead
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Lilliana Velasco
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Cutter
- Mike Murray
- Producer
- Patrick Brawn
- Director
- Patrick Wyand
- Camera
- Platypus Films
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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