New Towns

Series

Series Name

Transatlantic Teleview

Issue

Issue No.

21

Date Released

1956

Completion

Sep 1956

Length of issue (in feet)

1282

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1New Towns

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: In a visit to Harlow, one of Britain’s new "satellite" towns, Christopher Chataway discusses this modern building experiment with Frederick Gibberd, Harlow’s architect-planner, and interviews a number of people living and working in the town.

Keywords

Town and country planning

Written sources

Overseas Film Library Catalogue   c.1958, p252 - used for synopsis
The National Archives INF 6   /1987
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]

COI Reference

MI 793/21

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Presenter

Christopher Chataway

Sponsor

Foreign Office

Production Co.

World Wide Pictures Ltd

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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