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Work on wax

Series

Series Name
Oil Review

Issue

Issue No.
10
Date Released
1951
Length of issue (in feet)
1023
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1War Against Winter
  2. 2Work on wax
  3. 3London’s Time

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 3
Summary
NFA Summary - how translucent white slabs of wax are made from dark oil and its numerous applications
BP synopsis: Wax manufacture at Sunbury and its uses. The film goes into the splitting of oil, and the how they separate it into slabs, then what uses it has - crayons, cleaning products etc.
Keywords
Industry and manufacture
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases
National Film Archive Catalogue
Film User   Vol.6 No.70 August 1952, p409.
BP Video Library   Tape Details. Used for synopsis
Credits:
Sponsor
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Production Co.
Greenpark Productions Ltd.
Producer
Humphrey Swingler
Length of story (in feet)
321

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Film Archive

Name
BP Video Library
Email
bpvl@bp.com
Web
http://www.bpvideolibrary.com
Phone
020 7928 2097
Fax
020 7928 2101
Address
c/o Metro
53 Great Suffolk Street
London SE1 0DB
Series held
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Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk
Web
http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
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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