Learning on ScreenThings Aren’t What They’re Seen To Be!
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Cinema screen violence owes a lot to advances in electronics - when the Western gunfight, startlingly realistic, ends we discover behind the scene it’s all produced with split second timing by the ubiquitous black box.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes footage from a BBC ‘Tomorrow’s World’ programme featuring presenter James Burke. Looks at various special effects including miniature detonators in clothing, fake wax bullets, exploding "blood" bags and compressed air gun equipment.
- Keywords
- Science and technology; Cinema
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 47 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/33
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Fred Goodland
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Presenter
- Marion Foster
- Cutter
- William Hammerton
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:
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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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