Oxford

Series

Series Name

Topic

Issue

Issue No.

1

Date Released

1958

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Oxford

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Through the eyes of North Carolina’s Dick Baker who has won a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, American visitors, Joan and Julius Evans, discover the distinctive features of the tutorial system in British univerisites. They chat informally with a ‘scout’ who has been taking care of the undergraduates on his stairwell for over fifty years and at Rhodes House they meet Brigadier Williams, Chief of Intelligence for Field-Marshal Montgomery, and now the warden of Rhodes House.

Keywords

Students; Education and training

Written sources

The National Archives INF 6   /1361
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Films From Britain Catalogue   c.1960, p.74 - used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 892/1

Credits:

Production Co.

Anvil Films Ltd

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign Office

Presenter

Joan Evans

Presenter

Julius Evans

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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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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