Firefighters (Special)
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: Looks at the work of the Montrose Firefighting School, in Scotland, which is financed by the major oil companies. Shows trainees undergoing the intensive four-day course in tackling oil industry fires.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes footage from Waller TV of an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The school has a mock-up of an offshore oil platform
- Local distribution only
- Mexican Special
- Keywords
- Education and training; Fires; Fuels
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/1080
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- John Wilson
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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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).
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