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Frontier


The Frontier science programs consisted of two groups. The first was produced in black and whiteand the second series was in colour. The following list of the programs that were produced is incomplete. If anyone has any further information about the series please make contact using the web site email address that can found on the Navigation Bar. 
 
1964 
 
Frontier No 1 Growth of Love   program is about the work of Dr John Bowlby of the Tavistock Clinic in London. He talks about his work on the first formative weeks of a baby's life.  
 
Frontier No 2 Common Cold   no further information 
 
Frontier No 3 Wear  program is about research into the  way materials wear, for example through fiction. Most of the program considers wear in the context of  metals. The program includes interviews with experts Dr Hirst and Dr Welsh.(NFA ID 8234) 
 
Frontier No 4 Proteins   program considers the role of proteins  in the way our bodies function. Includes interviews with Ritchie Calder, William Pirie and Professor Fogg. (NFA ID 11155) 
 
Frontier No 5 Hovercraft   program reviewed developments in the use of hovercraft. It includes an interview with Sir Christopher Cockerel. 
 
1965 

Frontier No 6 Initial Teaching Alphabet   program describes a large scale experiment in 1961 by the University of London involving 10,000 children to teach them to read using a new method called the Initial Teaching Alphabet 
 
Frontier No 7 Computers   program is about the development of computers. Christopher Tracey an expert traces their development up to the ATLAS machines used in London and Manchester universities. Produced by United Motion Pictures (UMP) Directed by Denny Densham (NFA ID 179131) 
 
Frontier No 8 Taming the Waters  no further information 

Frontier No 9 Radio Astronomy  program is about Britain’s involvement this new science.  Sir Bernard Lovell is interviewed about the new Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope. 
 
 Frontier No 10 Traffic In Towns program looks at the problems of managing the increasing amount of traffic in towns. An expert on traffic management, Prof Colin Buchanan, speaks about his report on the subject.  (NFA ID 13409) 
 
Frontier No 11 Car Safety  no further information. (NFA ID 6569) 
 
Frontier 12 Sonic Aid for the Blind  program is about research into aids for blind people using ultra sonic sound. Produced by Philomel directed by Margaret Thomson (NFA ID 65685) 
 
Frontier No 14 Supersonic and Hypersonic Flight program is about research into the possibilities of supersonic aircraft. 

1969 

Frontier (colour series)  
 
The Handicapped Child (colour) 1  program about medical facilities available for handicapped babies. 
 
Micro Miniturisation (colour) 2  no further information 
 
Radio Astronomy (colour) 3   no further information 
 
Radio Isotopes  (colour)  4  program is about radio isotopes. They are described and their potential examined at the Atomic Energy Authority. 
 
 Research Into Car Safety  (colour) 5  no further information. 
 
This group of five programs were the last Frontier programs to be produced. They were subsumed into the new series of Living Tomorrow and Tomorrow Today science programs. 
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