British Book Illustration
Recorded at the opening reception of British Book Illustration, an exhibition held at The American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, 1959.
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Exhibition organised by the Illustrators Group of the Society of Industrial Artists,
the Arts Council of Great Britain and The Folio Society, London.
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SPEAKERS
Miss Kathleen Graham, her Majesty’s Deputy Consul General
Derrick Harris
Our Homes, a film strip, The Council of Industrial Design, 1946
OUR HOMES was the first of a series of fifteen-minute filmstrips that were
produced by the Council of Industrial Design in 1946 as an educational tool
for schools and institutes throughout Britain. The aim was to heighten
peoples’ interest in the design of the things that they lived with and that were
part of their day-to- day lives. This particular filmstrip was a general
introduction to the social background of design throughout history and was
first broadcast by the BBC 22nd April 1947. When shown publicly it would
have been supplied as a 35 or 16 mm filmstrip together with an audio disc that
would have been played simultaneously.