Learning on ScreenNuclear Pacemaker
Series
- Series Name
- Tomorrow Today
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Exclusive film, shot specially for Tomorrow Today, of the world’s first nuclear heart pacemaker. Powered by plutonium, this precision unit is built to last for ten years, supplying on demand a tiny voltage, stimulating the muscles of the heart to keep it beating. A truly remarkable piece of engineering.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Engineering; Nuclear energy
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 36 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/51
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Fred Goodland
- Producer
- Ian Morrison
- Presenter
- Ian Morrison
- Support services
- Ian Morrison
- 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:
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
- View all series held by British Film Institute (BFI)
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