A Beautiful Picture Of America’s Heritage

Series

Series Name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue

Issue No.

36

Date Released

1968

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Adventure Playgrounds
2. 2Goodbye To The Guinea And The Old Threepenny Bit
3. 3How To Win Friends And Influence Travellers
4. 4A Beautiful Picture Of America’s Heritage

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: London Line looks at the fine engravings of Denis Wreford, who uses his 20th century talent to picture some of America’s most famous historic places in the style of an 18th century engraving.

Keywords

Arts and crafts

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1394/36

Credits:

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)

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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