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  1. New Telescope

    Date released
    3 Dec 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/97
    NoS ID
    112876
    Story no
    5 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Britain’s biggest ever telescope and the largest ever built in Western Europe, was the centre of attention at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. It’s a 98 inch instrument named after Sir Isaac Newton,...

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  2. 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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  3. Story of Palomar, The (1948 Film)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The development of the Palomar telescope explaining the theory behind the reflecting telescope and tracing the manufacture and installation of the mirror for the Palomar telescope.

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  4. 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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  5. A Big Job

    Date released
    22 Aug 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1629
    NoS ID
    023738
    Story no
    2 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A Big Job. DESCRIPTION: Britain’s giant radio telescope at Jodrell Bank is undergoing a major overhaul. The telescope itself has done many a big job, tracking satellites, but...

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  6. Stairway to the Stars

    Date released
    4 Dec 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2009
    NoS ID
    027152
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stairway to the Stars. DESCRIPTION: The largest Telescope in Europe, at the Royal Observatory, Herstmonceux, will give Astronomers a closer look at the mysteries of space. SHOTLIST: CU...

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  7. Hubble repairs underway (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Special

    Report on repair work being done on the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour Shuttle Commander, Colonel Richard Covey speaks to Mission Control via radio link. Astronaut, Geoffrey Hoffman speaks from his space...

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  8. Space telescopes, planets and black holes (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male speaker on the use of space telescopes (or a particular space telescope, possibly Hubble?) to observe planets and black holes. Male interviewer not identified.

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  9. 400 Years of the Telescope (2009)

    Director
    Kris Koenig
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $24.99

    A documentary tracing the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope. The film begins in 17th century Florence, Italy, with Galileo training his...

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  10. Patrick Moore on Royal Observatory telescope (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Patrick Moore on the 28-inch refracting telescope at the Royal Observatory. He talks about how it is one of the largest telescopes in the world, how long it has been there, the groundbreaking things it has...

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