Learning on ScreenSilver Jubilee Exhibition
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: London’s Silver Jubilee Exhibition has the leading British companies showing off their achievements during the twenty five years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Maggie Palmer enters the biggest tent in the world to see what they’ve got to shout about.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes footage of the Alaskan pipeline under construction from BP’s film ‘Alaska - End of the Road’ (1976) and sequences featuring a hot air balloon, a nuclear reactor, a modern coal face, Concorde’s Rolls Royce engine, British Leyland’s Landrover, IBA’s Oracle information service, a large model of the Trooping of the Colour containing some 400,000 Lego bricks, and a home gymnasium. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 561’ ran the same story
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Exhibitions and shows
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/981
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk - Web
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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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