Learning on ScreenA Grid for Gas
Series
- Series Name
- Home and Away
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- BFI Summary - A look at the Scottish Gas Board. The item opens with a brief shot of a gas lamp and gas cooker, illustrating the uses to which gas is put, and an exterior of the Scottish Gas Board works at Westfield, Fife. Inside the works a model and diagram of a new system of boilers - an ignafluid stoker fired system is looked at, and followed by shots of the plant and a map of the Scottish gas grid. A gas pipe in a field ready for laying underground is shown, as are scenes inside the foundry.
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Fuels
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Scottish Screen Archive database Ref. 1527
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.
- Director
- Charles French
- Director
- John Mallinson
- Editor
- Peter Cantor
- Production Co.
- Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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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).
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