Magnascan

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

94

Filmed

Nov 1971

Length of issue (in feet)

494

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Mobile Facsimile Recorder
2. 2Fused Stained Glass
3. 3Magnascan
4. 4Hoverplatform

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: High quality colour printing has been available for some time, but it’s a lengthy process, unsuitable for newspapers. With television bringing up-to-the-minute news straight into the home in full colour, the newspaper editor needs to do the same. Magnascan is an electronic machine which turns a colour photo into front-page news in just forty minutes.

Keywords

Mass media; Science and technology; Newspapers; Computers and computing

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/94

Credits:

Producer

Anthony Thomson

Camera

Barry Dodds

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Howard Williams

Director

John Lyndon

Presenter

Marion Foster

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

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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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