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Active Carbon

Series

Series Name
Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.
63
Date Released
1970
Length of issue (in feet)
493
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Fly A Kite
  2. 2Betalight
  3. 3Freeze Etching
  4. 4Active Carbon

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
COI synopsis: Whoever heard of cast-off clothing helping to fight pollution - well, heat it up to 900 degrees centigrade, bubble nitrogen and carbon dioxide through it and you get active carbon - the very latest filtration chemical for making drinking water from dirty rivers.
Keywords
Science and technology; Pollution; Engineering
Written sources
COI Microfilm Roll 36 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 1458/63
Credits:
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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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