Spin Freezer Life-Saver

Series

Series Name: Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

Filmed

Dec 1969

Length of issue (in feet)

477

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

COI synopsis: The average life of a bottle of whole blood is 21 days. The life-span can be extended by freeze drying in enormous cold rooms - but now the compact spin freezer is drying plasma in five minutes and it will last for up to seven years.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/22

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Presenter: Howard Williams
Presenter: Marion Foster
Cutter: Peter Greenaway
Editor: Peter Greenaway

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