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Film of Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside, Honorary Fellow, 1971. This 16 mm film held at the London Metropolitan Archives with the reference number LSA/6155 was made in 1972. It lasts 8 minutes and 15 seconds and was digitised in 2019. The film starts with Hinton talking about his education and apprenticeship (mechanical engineering in railway industry), and later scholarship to Cambridge. He then discusses his working life and his WWII secondment to the Ministry of Supply. Goes on to talk at length about his work in atomic energy industry post WWII. [Digital version available]