Learning on ScreenSidewalk Surfing
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Skateboarding came only recently to Britain but it’s now our fastest growing sport. It’s already got too big for the streets, but Maggie Palmer visits ‘Skate City’ on the banks of the Thames, where 3,000 kids a day can practice their surfing - off the sidewalk.
- Researcher Comments
- NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 565’ ran the same story
- Keywords
- Sport; Children; Youth; 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 936/995
- Credits:
-
- Editor
- Annabel Olivier Wright
- Support services
- Annabel Olivier Wright
- Producer
- Annabel Olivier Wright
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Eddy Newstead
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Camera
- Platypus Films
- Cutter
- R.I. Phillips
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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