Learning on ScreenThe Buzz Of Excitement
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Treasure hunting as a hobby using metal detectors has become tremendously popular in Britain. Vicki Luke joins a group of enthusiasts and discovers that it is the anticipation when the detector starts to buzz that is often more exciting than the actual "find". Apart from treasure hunting, Vicki investigates other more serious uses for metal detectors. We see a mountain rescue team searching with a high-powered detector for a lost climber in the snow and join a police diving team using an underwater metal detector to locate a gun thrown into a lake after an armed robbery.
- Researcher Comments
- Locations visited include Keswick and Lincolnshire. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Police; Crime; Emergency services; History and archaeology
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/1073
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- John Wilson
- Presenter
- Vicki Luke
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 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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