Bibby Pak

Series

Series Name: Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

Date Released

1970

Filmed

Feb 1970

Length of issue (in feet)

478

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Boxes of eggs and crockery dropped unharmed two hundred feet from a balloon is a startling demonstration of a new kind of super packaging at cut prices.

Researcher Comments

The process involves injecting chemicals around items to be packaged which expands to form polyurethene foam

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1458/31

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sound: Chris Wilden
Camera: Dick Ewen
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Presenter: Ian Morrison
Producer: Janice Willett / Kay
Presenter: Marion Foster
Director: Mark Lawton
Editor: Peter Greenaway
Cutter: Peter Greenaway
Commentator: Roger Cook
Presenter: Roger Cook

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