Learning on ScreenSafety First
Series
- Series Name
- Home and Away
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: The film follows a meeting on road safety held by the Auto section of the Babcock & Wilcox Club. Sir Guy Shaw Stewart, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrew officially opens the campaign organised by the Club, and a policeman is seen instructing children on bicycle road safety in the playground of Moorpark School, followed by a school quiz on road safety. There are also shots of the Provost Charles McNeil of Renfrew and a road safety exhibition. Moving on, the film continues by showing the installation of a computer at the London offices - Pegasus comes to Babcock House. A clerk works at calculations and in the operating room at Babcock House, London, a Pegasus Electronic Computer is installed and shown working.
- Keywords
- Children; Motor vehicles; Road transport; Cycling; Public information; Computers and computing
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.
- Producer
- Cyril Randell
- Director
- Peter Ward
- Editor
- Robert Morgan
- Production Co.
- Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- Fax
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- 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).
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