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This Week in Britain, Non-fiction TV, 1959-1980 IMDB

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8637811966 Aston Martin DB6 MkI [*][*][*] Ep. 791
8637721964 Bedford CAL Mk3 [*] Ep. 615
863773Case 1000 D [*][*] Ep. 615
8637751964 Jaguar E-Type [*][*] Ep. 791
8637761966 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow I [*][*] Ep. 791
863774Thwaites Alldrive [*][*] Ep. 615
8637791965 Vanden Plas Princess 1100 MkI [*][*][*] Ep. 791


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dsl SX

◊ 2015-11-14 19:04

 "This Week In Britain" was a news series produced by the UK's Central Office of Information (COI) in behalf of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office for distribution to overseas TV and cinema networks. Each episode was a 5-minute factual report covering a single topic. It ran from 1959 to 1980 and was black-and white until changing to colour in the early 1970s, sometime around episode 700. The numbering suggests these were issued at weekly or similar intervals.

imdb has a page for the series with incomplete info (although I've sent them some content update to broaden their limited facts). Have opened this imcdb page for two episodes which appear on
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this COI Collection Volume Two: Design for Today DVD set.

1] Ep.615: The National Theatre (1970) (which has its own imdb sub-page) - black-and-white report about the then part-built National Theatre on London's South Bank.
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- two very neat models used on architectural model
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(difficult to gauge size, but I think 1:43 or smaller and I'm not sure who made them - they don't ring bells for me from Dinky, Corgi, Spot-On etc, unless the car is the Dinky #150 Silver Wraith

2] Ep.791 Mary Quant (1974) - colour feature on the fashion designer
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- contains sequences from what looks like an uncredited and very silly film of unknown origin with lots of bizarrely dressed girls running about London streets in some sort of chase/kidnap caper (think Benny Hill with stick insects) with some exotic cars. As the cars have 1964-66 plates, it may give a likely date. Some of the footage was reused for the 2014 film How We Used To Live which has taken several clips from this COI DVD set.

Two other TWIB episodes are included on the COI DVD set:
- Ep.750 Men's Fashions (1971) - black and white (along with a 2nd version in colour called 24 Horas [Hours]: Men's Fashions with a Spanish commentary which was made for Mexico) - includes a strange sequence of 4 trendy people people dancing on the top of a van being driven round London, with lots of cars/trucks/buses etc in blurry background. The best is a 69-ish Mustang
- Ep.1111 Savile Row (1976) - colour
Neither have any useful captures for us - I was tempted by the Mustang, but I'd only get shouted at.

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johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2015-11-14 20:14

 The bus is an AEC RF, which looks a bit tall compared with the Royce.

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Gamer DE

◊ 2015-11-14 21:10

 A news program? Oh come on guys...

Q-Ball JP

◊ 2015-11-15 05:05

 I like foreign news programs and documentaries here if the cars are clear enough. I have yet to thank the poster of the "Look at Life" films. Now I have these to search for and watch on YouTube, too.

Ddey65 US

◊ 2015-11-15 05:13
Q-Ball wrote I like foreign news programs and documentaries here if the cars are clear enough. I have yet to thank the poster of the "Look at Life" films. Now I have these to search for and watch on YouTube, too.

NET Journal was a documentary series on National Educational Television (the predecessor to PBS), and they had a black and white documentary on migrant workers taken from Arkansas to Long Island and exploited to the hilt. I vaguely remember a late-1960's Chevy panel truck, a Ford F-Series stake truck from the early-1960's, and a former farm off of NY 25A in Mount Sinai, New York.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373484/combined

Link to "www.paleycenter.org"

That's foreign to you.


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rattle on EN

◊ 2015-11-18 16:55

 Model AEC bus might be a paperweight has oppossed to a toy,there was a paperweight model of a AEC Q single decker similar in style to this AEC RF model.

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