Granada Television: World in Action transcripts: Guyana Election, 1968

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ICS 23

Title: Granada Television: World in Action transcripts: Guyana Election, 1968

Date(s): 1968 - 1968

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 box (4 items)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Granada Television

Administrative/Biographical history: World in Action, produced by Granada Television, is one of Britain's longest running current affairs programmes. First launched in 1963, World in Action was the first weekly current affairs programme in Britain to pioneer pictorial journalism on film and to risk taking an independent editorial stance. Guyana achieved independence in 1966, the 1968 General Election was won by the People's National Congress, led by Forbes Burnham.

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Source of acquisition by ICS unknown.

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Scope and content: Transcripts of two Granada Television World in Action programmes on the Guyana Elections of 1968, 'The Trail of the vanishing voter', broadcast 11 Dec 1968 and 'The Making of a Prime Minister', broadcast 6 Jan 1969; with Opinion Research Centre survey on electoral registers for Guyana, Oct 1968 and transcript of the results of general elections in Guyana, 1964 and 1968.

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System of arrangement: 4 items

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Conditions governing access:

Conditions governing reproduction: Most items may be copied, at the discretion of the Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research or private study. Requests to publish, or quote from original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager. Copyright presumed belonging to Granada Television.

Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: Descriptive list available in the ICS Library

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Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Caribbean

Specific group:

Subjects

Internal politics

Electoral systems

Elections

Personal/Corporate names

Burnham, Linden Forbes Samson, 1923-1985, Prime Minister and President of Guyana

Granada Television Limited

People's National Congress, Guyana

Places

South America

Guyana