Venus Calling + Cosmonaut Arrives 1967

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No title. Venus calling - British radio telescope listened across space to Soviet probe at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire.

Angle shot of radio telescope, panning down from antenna. Various shots of telescope. We hear crackling static sound - narrator explains this was the noise transmitted across space...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
56467
Sort Number:
67/085
Time in/Out:
01:00:16:00 / 01:01:11:00
Canister:
67/85
Film ID:
2045.01
Issue Date:
22/10/1967

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