Lost Wax Casting

Series

Series Name

Shell Cinemagazine

Issue

Issue No.

16

Date Released

1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Lost Wax Casting
2. 2The Big Dig
3. 3Viking Longship

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Film User synopsis: Casting gas-turbine blading by a method borrowed from the Ancient Egyptians

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; History and archaeology

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Film User   Vol.5 No.58 August 1951, p406. Used for synopsis

Credits:

Director

J. A. D. Cartwright

Production Co.

Shell Film Unit

Sponsor

Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

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).

Series held

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Name

Shell Film and Video Unit

Email

Filmservices@Shell.com

Web

http://www.shell.com

Address

Creative Solutions
Shell Centre
London SE1 7NA

Series held

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