Tropical Fish On Ice

Series

Series Name: London Line

Issue

Issue No.

395

Date Released

1972

Filmed

May 1972

Length of issue (in feet)

530

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: Lydia Amu from Ghana is a scientifist studying the effects of ice on the tropical fish of West Africa. We follow her experiments which, though much more work needs to be done, are most encouraging - tropical fish are seen to last twice as long on ice as fish from temperate zones.

Researcher Comments

Visits Billingsgate Market and the Tropical Products Institute

Keywords

Science and technology; Fisheries

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1257/395

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Producer: Eric Beecroft
Director: Eric Beecroft
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Sound: Frank Jeffs
Camera: Jim Golding
Camera: John Letangue
Presenter: Jumoke Debayo
Producer: Patrick Brawn
Support services: Renee Serlin
Camera: Tom Fawcett

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