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- BFI identifier154538
- Date1961 (Copyright)
1961-11-23 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisNuclear testing by the Americans and Russians has tilted the Earth off its axis and sent it on a collision course with the sun. As a group of journalists at London's Daily Express report the unfolding events, the superpowers plan to explode two more bombs hoping to set the planet back on its original orbit. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe film opened in London's West End on 23 November 1961 before going on general release on the Rank cinema circuit from 14 January 1962.
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Title
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/4DEF-D8F3-7407-81F0-6F0C-BCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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- Film / Video
16mm BW and Tinted Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW and Tinted Positive - Acetate - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Final screenplay - SCR-6494
Script - Script type: Post-production script - SCR-6495
Script - Script type: First draft screenplay - SCR-6496
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-154538
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-154538
Medium and Small pressbook held. See VAL GUEST Collection List (Item 5).
view all - Posters / Designs
- StillsPhotograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1101631
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1101632
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1101587
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-rux
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-rwz
view all - Articles
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- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes October 2014
BFI Southbank Programme Notes September 2015
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Work - 154538 - 1961 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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