Pictures from Space

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1728

Date Released

16 Jul 1962

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pictures From Space. DESCRIPTION: Telstar, the television relay-station in space, is the first commercially-owned satellite ever to be launched. The receiving station in England, Goonhilly Down in Cornwall, was built by the Post Office in just over a year to receive the first pictures which were of disappointing quality. In France, on the Brittany coast near Lannion, first pictures were a good deal better. But these pictures show only just the beginning of what is rightly described as a new era in communications. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Men put Telstar together. MCU men with Telstar. Propeller. GV Telstar takes off. CU Telstar (picture) Goonhilly Downs. MS men at controls. MCU pan another. Ditto. MS picture on television set. Brittany on French Coast. TV set. GV people. MCU TV set. GV ray room. GV pan French aerial. Man at controls. CU TV set. MS woman and boy looking at TV set. CU woman and boy. CU TV set.

Keywords

Communications; Space

Locations

France; United States of America; United Kingdom; Brittany; Goonhilly Down; Lannion

Card file number

84718

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

203

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