Learning on ScreenDesign Centre
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Maggie Palmer visited the Design Centre just off Piccadilly Circus, to discover anything new and outstanding in industrial design in Britain. The choice was very wide, from advanced engineering to children’s toys. Of the various prize winners Maggie chose two. So this week she investigates firstly a breakthrough in airport safety and secondly a new method for the mass production of sailing boats, a method that can now be adopted to many other manufactures. But there is so much in the field of industrial design still to be covered, that she experts to go back later for more.
- Researcher Comments
- Designs featured are aircraft landing lights using tungsten halligen lamps and the Topper dinghy designed by Ian Proctor, manufactured by John Dunhill. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 546’ ran the same story
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts; Industry and manufacture; Design
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/962
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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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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