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Series
- Series Name
- Ingot Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 5
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: An item showing the sports ground at Cookley, Staffordshire being dug up for an extension of the Cookley works to enable manufacture of grain-oriented steel for use in electrical transformers. A graphics-illustrated explanation is given of why such steel is needed in transformers. Illustrations of the use of steel in electrical appliances include the lights at Piccadilly Circus, London trams, a radio, a funfair, a phone and a substation.
- Researcher Comments
- Derrick A. Gladwell acted as Production Adviser for this issue.
- Keywords
- Sport; Buildings and structures; Entertainment and leisure; Transport; Communications; Science and technology; Cricket; Industry and manufacture; Animation
- Written sources
- Viewing Copy - bfi Used for synopsis
British Film Institute Databases
National Film Archive Catalogue
Film User Vol.10 No.120 October 1956, p460.
- Credits:
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- Support services
- Derrick A. Gladwell
- Commentator
- Frank Hawkins
- Director
- Geoff Busby
- Sponsor
- Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group
- Editor
- Stan Hill
- Production Co.
- Verity Films Ltd.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- 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).
- Series held
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