SAMI To The Rescue

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

7

Date Released

1969

Length of issue (in feet)

476

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Silver Into Gold
2. 2Cabbage Root Fly Bites The Dust
3. 3SAMI To The Rescue
4. 4Music In Miniature

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: When a giant oil tanker moving at under two mph bumped a jetty, the bill came to one and a quarter million pounds. So SAMI was born. Speed of Approach Measurement Indicator brings the quarter of a million tons of super tanker gently into berth at less than a tenth of a mph.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Science and technology

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/7

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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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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