Designer - Man Or Machine?
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Ever since the time of Leonardo da Vinci - builders have worked from detailed drawings - involving thousands of man hours of painstakingly accurate labour. Now a firm of consulting engineers has programmed a computer to eliminate 90% of the draughtsman’s work in designing reinforced concrete structures.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Science and technology; Engineering; Computers and computing; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/20
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Howard Williams
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Presenter
- Marion Foster
- Cutter
- Peter Cullum
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- 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
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- 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
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