Radio Location Inventor Talks AKA Radiolocator… 1941

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Title reads: "Radiolocator inventor talks".

Pathe Studios, London

The inventor of radiolocation (aka radar), Robert Watson Watt enters. He puts rolled up plans on desk and talks to camera. He reminds us how when first aeroplane landed in France a journalist wrote "Britain no longer...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38938
Sort Number:
41/050
Time in/Out:
01:47:49:00 / 01:50:15:00
Canister:
41/50
Film ID:
1117.35
Issue Date:
23/06/1941

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