Learning on ScreenWonder Kydd
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: 18 year-old Londoner Eddie Kydd prepares to beat his own motor-cycle stunt record a leap of over 40 cars. His shoulder is aching from a previous fall, the weather’s not too good - so how will he do? Maggie Palmer will be there to see Britain’s answer to Evel Knieval do his latest death-defying jump.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes brief extracts from BBC footage of Kydd jumping over buses and from Kensington Films. The rest is original COI footage shot at Beaulieu. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version.
- Keywords
- Displays; Motorcycling
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/1018
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Maggie Palmer
- Cutter
- T. Williamson
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 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).
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