Stairway to the Stars

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2009

Date Released

4 Dec 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1End in Sight
2. 2Parents, Please Note
3. 3Top Teenagers
4. 4Miss World in the Ward
5. 5Stairway to the Stars

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

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 picture of Pleiades stars. CU another picture ditto. GV exterior Royal Greenwich Observatory. GV ditto. GV exterior The Isaac Newton Telescope. MS interior showing part of telescope - man gets into position to look through telescope. MCU ditto. CU man operating hand console. LAS mirror shields being opened. CU man looking through telescope. MS telescope being moved into position. LAS exterior telescope as it is moved. MS man gets into capsule to study sky by mirror reflections. CU ditto. MCU capsule being moved into position. MS CU ditto. MCU the Astronomer Royal, Sir Richard Woolley prepares to look through telescope. MS Sir Richard Woolley looking through telescope. CU ditto. LAS as telescope is moved into position. GV exterior The Sir Isaac Newton Telescope.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Science and technology; Space

Locations

England; Sussex; Herstmonceux

Footage sources

Royal Observatory

Card file number

93025

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

158

Story extras:

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