The COI Collection Volume 2: Design for Today (1944-1977) [British Film Institute]

Film Distributor: BFI (British Film Institute)

Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information and was responsible for producing thousands of films which celebrated Britain, its people and their achievements.

This second volume in the COI Collection surveys the subjects of architecture, design and fashion. Highlights include: Designing Women (1948), Joyce Grenfell takes us through the dos and don ts of home furnishing; Brief City (1952), modernist architecture and design on show at the Festival of Britain; Design for Today (1965), Hugh Hudson s day-in-the-life of British design; Insight: Terence Conran (1981) and Insight: Zandra Rhodes (1981), Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman team up in an early collaboration; The Pacemakers BIBA (1970), a look at the work of Barbara Hulanicki. This volume also boasts two newly commissioned scores by electronic pop band Saint Etienne. They give Designed in Britain (1959) and Design for Today (1965) a contemporary music make-over, whilst still retaining some original features. An accompanying booklet provides authoritative notes, along with Hugh Hudson s recollections of making Design for Today.

Disc one:
- Designing Women (Roger MacDougall, 1948) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855992
- Brief City (Maurice Harvey & Jacques Brunius, 1952) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368620
- Designed in Britain (J. B. Napier-Bell, 1959) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872042
- Design for Today (Hugh Hudson, 1965) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872041
- This Week in Britain 615: The National Theatre (Eric Halliday, 1970) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872212
- The Pacemakers: Basil Spence (1973) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872202
- Insight: Terence Conran (Peter Greenaway, 1981) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205453

Disc two:
- Sixty Years of Fashion (Sam Napier-Bell, 1960) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6787198
- Mini Skirts Make Money (1968) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7495994
- The Pacemakers: Biba (John Hall, 1970) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7496562
- The Country Look (1971) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6847324
- This Week in Britain 750: Men’s Fashions (John Lyndon, 1973)
- 24 Hours: Men’s Fashion (John Lyndon, 1973)
- This Week in Britain 791: The Mary Quant Show (1974)
- This Week in Britain 1111: Savile Row (John Wilson, 1976)
- Insight: Zandra Rhodes (Peter Greenaway, 1981)
- A Woman’s Place: Image Makers (Bob Bentley, 1985)






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