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Listening to Space

Date released

18 Nov 1963

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1798

NoS ID

025331

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Listening to Space. DESCRIPTION: Within a natural crater, in Puerto Rico, ringed by mountain peaks is the site for the largest radar and radio telescope of its kind in the world....

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Cambridge Radio Telescope, The (1976 Film)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses the principles of aerial synthesis. Shows the setting up of the Cavendish Laboratory’s radio telescope: the making of the cables, aerial erection, connecting up of the radio frequency and control...

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Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955 Television)

Director

Orson Welles

Version, intended for television, of Welles’ stage production of his play based on Melville’s novel. Filmed for three weeks but filming subsequently abandoned after c75 minutes had been shot. It was...

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Francis Graham Smith on new telescope funding (1988)

Genre

Interview

Astronomer Royal, Sir Francis Graham Smith gives details of a new multi-million pund radio telescope which will be built by Manchester University following a grant. He describes the kind of things it may...

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Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews: Patrick Moore; Clare Francis. Living in the 17th Century Exhibition - nd [1985]

Morning Call Archive No.18: A selection of interviews from Radio Victory’s Morning Call series, compiled as an archive reel by the station. TRACKS 1-3 PATRICK MOORE. Describes Saturn as seen through...

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Inventions that changed the world (1985)

A series aimed at the under-16s which takes a lighthearted look at the history of invention. Amongst the subject covered are the use of metals and discovery of bronze, the inventions of modern printing, the...

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Guest Speaker

Date

20 Sep 2017, 14:49

Author

Alex Morris

Post Type

Page

We're delighted to announce Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock as our guest speaker for the Learning on Screen Awards 2017. Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to a...

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Radio Telescope

Date released

24 Oct 1960

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

304

NoS ID

120963

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the radio telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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Ears to See Through

Date released

8 Jun 1964

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1827

NoS ID

025564

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ears to See Through. DESCRIPTION: Sir Bernard Lovell, master-mind behind the Jodrell Bank radio telescope, built in 1957, has just introduced the Mark Two Telescope, which has cost...

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New Radio Telescope

Date released

20 Nov 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2268

NoS ID

029652

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Radio Telescope - Colour. DESCRIPTION: The world’s largest radio telescope near Cambridge, handed over to Sir Martin Ryle, Astronomer Royal. SHOTLIST: GV radio telescope in...

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