Long View

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2071A

Date Released

13 Feb 1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Top Tail-Waggers
2. 2Long View
3. 3Hibernation ‘69
4. 4Ice Title Again

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Long View. DESCRIPTION: Movietone looks at telescopes, from the archaic devices built by Sir William Herschel in the 18th Century to the latest proposals in Radio Telescopes. The most powerful one in the world is soon to be built on a disused railway line at Cambridge, while boys at a London Technical School have designed their own, turning astronomy into a practical experiment. SHOTLIST: LAS pan signpost Warfield Church. LS house of Sir William Herschel, nr. Bracknell, Berks. MS portrait of Sir William. CU portrait book with inscription The Georgian Planet & It’s Satellites. MCU Great-Grand Daughter of Herschel with one of his earliest telescopes. MCU she turns handle. MCU she opens a lid at the bottom. MS three of his descendants with telescope. CU ditto. MCU zoom in 2 lady descendants with a model of a 40-footer telescope. 2 CUs blueprint drawings of radio telescope to be built at Cambridge on disused railway lines. MCU Sir Martin Ryle, pan to diagram. 2 MLS radio telescope. MCU ditto, pan down to another radio telescope. LS ditto. GV proposed site. 2 CUs blueprints of telescope. MS pan schoolboys at Highbury Grove Technical School, London, carrying piece of equipment for their telescope. MCU master and boys with piece of equipment. LAS boys installing reflector on roof of school. MS boy & master with diagram on blackboard. 2 MS boys fixing up reflector on roof. MS boy with receiver. CU boy. CU receiver. MS reflector being traversed.

Keywords

Education and training; Buildings and structures; Science and technology; Space; Engineering

Locations

London; Cambridge; United Kingdom; Berkshire; Bracknell

Card file number

94409

Credits:

Camera

Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Maurice Ford

Length of story (in feet)

221

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