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Series
- Series Name
- Look At Life
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: Looks at different types of rubbish generated by society, and the problems of quantity and how to dispose of it, including recycling. Shows waste paper being collected and taken to board mills, where it is used to make cardboard containers and also shows how it is done. Also looks at rags, with cotton ones being used in industrial cleaning material and carpet and roof felt. Woolens are unpicked, cleaned and respun into new textiles. Also considers the processes of recycling waste glass, which can then be used in the manufacture of sandpaper and matches. Also deals with ways of recycling oil, old cars and other scrap metals, as well as the problems caused by plastics, which cannot be salvaged or recycled.
- Researcher Comments
- Look At Life Series 36 comprises Issues 456-468.
- Keywords
- Salvage
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
British Movietonews Listing
- Credits:
-
- Production Co.
- Athos Film Productions
- Director
- David Eady
- Editor
- George Fisher
- Camera
- John Mantell
- Commentator
- John Stockbridge
- Support services
- Kenneth Fairbairn
- Producer
- Peter G.A. Bucknall
- Production Co.
- The Rank Organisation Special Features Division
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
- info@screenocean.com
- Web
- http://reuters.screenocean.com/
- Phone
- +44(0)1954 262052
- Address
- 124 Horseferry Road,
London
SW1P 2TX - Notes
- British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
- Series held
- View all series held by Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
- 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
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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