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Guitar Tuning

Series

Series Name
London Line

Issue

Issue No.
420
Date Released
1972
Filmed
Oct 1972
Length of issue (in feet)
500
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Lake Nakuru
  2. 2SLURP
  3. 3Guitar Tuning
  4. 4Bruce Ruffin

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 4
Summary
COI synopsis: Many of us play electric guitars; not all of us can tune them. So we invited to our studios a young inventor who has devised an electronic guitar tuner, just to see if it worked. It did.
Researcher Comments
The inventor was Barry Simpson.
Keywords
Music and dance; Inventions and discoveries
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 1257/420
Credits:
Director
Bill Metcalfe
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Sound
Frank Jeffs
Cutter
Glenn Hyde
Editor
Glenn Hyde
Camera
John Letangue
Camera
John Rees
Presenter
Jumoke Debayo
Producer
Patrick Brawn
Support services
Renee Serlin

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Web
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Phone
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Fax
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Address
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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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