Hovercraft to Hoverbed
Series
- Series Name
- London Line (Colour series 2)
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: ... for the hospital - an invention designed to help with the treatment of the severely burned. The hoverbed makes use of the hover principle to float the burned patient on a sterile cushion of air - without any of the usual skin contact with the fabric of a conventional bed.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1394/30
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Commonwealth Affairs Office
- Sponsor
- Foreign Office
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:
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- 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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