Radio Telescope 1960

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C/U of a bowl-shaped radio telescope; M/S of the telescope as a man in overalls walks into shot and looks up at it as commentator tells us this is part of the Mullard Radio-Astronomy Observatory run by the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. The man is seen working at the back of the telescope;...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2847
Sort Number:
CP 304
Time in/Out:
01:22:52:00 / 01:24:39:00
Canister:
CP 304
Film ID:
117.09
Issue Date:
24/10/1960

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