Radar Ornithology

Synopsis: Part 1 (1963): A film about starlines made for the Granada Television series ANOTHER WORLD. In 1963 Douglas Fisher was filming starling roosts near Colchester when he heard that Dr Eastwood and members of his team at the Marconi Research Laboratories were recording the movements of birds using time-lapse photography at their 23cm radar station at Bushey Hill near Chelmsford. It transpired that both were filming the same starling roosts. The films were subsequently combined and the result is a sequence in this film.
Part 2 (1958). A Marconi research film from Dr Eastwood, recorded using ‘time-lapse photography’ from PPI (plan position indicator) and CRT displays at the 23cm Marconi radar station at Bushy Hill, Essex, during August 1958.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25, 10 min.
Year of production: 1963
Availability: Sale; 1995 sale: £12.00 (+p&p)
Notes: Contains some Crown copyright stills and movie sequences. This material is reproduced by special arrangement with the Defence Research Agency and is to be used only for private, club or educational showings. They must not be reproduced or shown publicly via any broadcast TV or computer networks.
Subjects: Biology; Physics
Keywords: birds; migration - animal; radar; time-lapse photography

Title: Feathered hordes
Synopsis: Part 1 (1963): A film about starlines made for the Granada Television series ANOTHER WORLD. In 1963 Douglas Fisher was filming starling roosts near Colchester when he heard that Dr Eastwood and members of his team at the Marconi Research Laboratories were
Title: Bird migration in south-east England
Synopsis: Part 2 (1958). A Marconi research film from Dr Eastwood, recorded using 'time-lapse photography' from PPI (plan position indicator) and CRT displays at the 23cm Marconi radar station at Bushy Hill, Essex, during August 1958.

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