Levitation For Tomorrow’s Railways
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: A breakthrough in the art of levitation by magnetic fields promises to revolutionise industry by slashing production times in many processes. Riding on an invisible magnetic cushion may even give us trains capable of 300 mph.
- Keywords
- Railways; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/24
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sound
- Chris Wilden
- Camera
- Dick Ewen
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Fred Goodland
- Presenter
- Howard Williams
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Producer
- Janice Willett / Kay
- Presenter
- Marion Foster
- Director
- Mark Lawton
- Cutter
- William Hammerton
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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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).
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