Space Flight - By Telescope!

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1884

Date Released

12 Jul 1965

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Churchill Church
2. 2Stamp of Approval
3. 3Starting Stalls Make Turf History
4. 4Space Flight - By Telescope!
5. 5Water-Ski - The Champs and the Chumps

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Space Flight - By Telescope!. DESCRIPTION: Just been opened by Lord Bowden, Minister of State for Science, the new radio telescope at Cambridge. It was designed by Martin Ryle who is Professor of Radio Astronomy and his new telescope makes Cambridge the best equipped centre in Europe for studying. SHOTLIST: LS Lord Bowden and Professor Martin Ryle standing in front of telescope receiver. CU Lord Bowden. MS Lord Bowden with Professor Ryle. LS ditto. Pan to 2nd reflector. LS reflector. MLS Professor Ryle and Lord Bowden in control room. CU control panel. CU ticker tape machine printing results. CU tape. Zoom in photographs of space. LS reflector working at night. MS ditto. MS ditto. Zoom in photographs of space. MS graph of results coming out of machine. CU ditto. Zoom in photograph of space. Pan down table of results. MCU automatic data painter. Zoom in photograph of space. GV reflector.

Keywords

Politics and government; Communications; Space

Locations

Cambridge

Card file number

89907

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

122

Story extras:

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