Learning on ScreenCommonwealth Students
Series
- Series Name
- Topic
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In London Joan and Julius Evans from America meet students from various parts of the Commonwealth of Nations who have come to Britain for university degrees and specialized training. These students include an Indian girl studying surgery and a young man from Ghana absorbing the philosophy and cultural background of Britain. Joan and Julius learn from a number of these students that, though many of thier countries have independent status in the Commonwealth, their young people still look to Britain as the focal point of technical knowledge and higher learning.
- Keywords
- Students
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
Films From Britain Catalogue c.1960, p.74 - used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 892/10
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign Office
- Presenter
- Joan Evans
- Presenter
- Julius Evans
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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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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