Wouldn't budge an inch for a centimetre? This guide to the new-fangled system of metrication may change your mind.

Oh the joy of 10! Hot on the heels of sterling's decimalisation in 1971, this short information film from 1973 uses its powers of persuasion- and some help from an animated amoeba - to explain the benefits of metrication to a reluctant British public. Everyday situations - from a couple buying new carpets for their new home to sport and travel - show how easy and unthreateningly familiar metric measures can be.

An introduction to metric weights and measures by way of familiar everyday situations in the home, at shopping, in sport and travel. Discusses the principal metric units and their combinations, and the significance of the metric prefixes, such as "centi-" etc.