Learning on ScreenUnderground Transport For Mines
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: An old saying, "The simpler the better"; and most simple things are very efficient and this railway is no exception. A monorail to run on, controls reduced to one simple lever and the traditional dead man’s handle as a foot control brake.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes footage from the National Coal Board film ‘Becorite Loco For Mines’ and features the designer of the locomotive, Dennis Cartwright.
- Keywords
- Railways; Transport; Science and technology; Mining; Engineering; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 36 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/38
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Commentator
- Keith Martin
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
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
- http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
- 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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