Learning on ScreenCovent Garden
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: What happens when an important and valuable inner city area becomes available for redevelopment? Planners and property developers have one idea but the local community may violently disagree. Diana MacLean goes to Covent Garden in London to see just how successful the project can be once the two groups bury the hatchet and work together.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes shots of the exterior and interior of Rules Restaurant and an interview with the manager John Wood; sequences showing barrows, saddles and silk shirts being made; a film crew shooting a razor advertisement; and girls doing gymnastic training. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Business and commerce; Scenery and travel; Town and country planning
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/986
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Presenter
- Diana MacLean
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
- Camera
- Platypus Films
- Director
- Robert Malcolm
- Support services
- Zakiya Powell
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
- 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
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