Satellite Communications At Goonhilly

Series

Series Name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue

Issue No.

19

Date Released

Jul 1966

Length of issue (in feet)

907

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Lord Mayor Visits Rio
2. 2Satellite Communications At Goonhilly
3. 3London College Of Printing
4. 4Making Footballs
5. 5Stanley Matthews

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

NoS synopsis: Two engineers from Chile visit the GPO earth satellite relay station at Goonhilly Downs.

Keywords

Communications; Science and technology; Space

Locations

Cornwall; England; Goonhilly

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 44 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1168/19

Credits:

Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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