Learning on ScreenEnergy
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Solar-assisted water heating in houses that were built before 1st World War... educating children to conserve resources for their own future, and seeing how Britain’s brewers make their own contribution to an international programme of energy conservation - Barbara Ewing examines these 3 aspects of a question of world importance, taken seriously in Britain’s Energy Month.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes an interview with Tony Kirk, the chief architect of the South London Consortium Energy Group, who were responsible for the featured solar-assisted water heating system. Places visited include the John Burns Primary School in Battersea, a Guinness factory where special heat recovery equipment had been installed to reduce the plant’s wastage of hot water and a row of Edwardian houses in Southwark served by the solar-assisted water heating system. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Environment; Industry and manufacture; Engineering; Energy resources; Town and country planning
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/1112
- Credits:
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- Presenter
- Barbara Ewing
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- John Wilson
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
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- 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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