Stairway to the Stars
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Stairway to the Stars. DESCRIPTION: The largest Telescope in Europe, at the Royal Observatory, Herstmonceux, will give Astronomers a closer look at the mysteries of space. SHOTLIST: CU picture of Pleiades stars. CU another picture ditto. GV exterior Royal Greenwich Observatory. GV ditto. GV exterior The Isaac Newton Telescope. MS interior showing part of telescope - man gets into position to look through telescope. MCU ditto. CU man operating hand console. LAS mirror shields being opened. CU man looking through telescope. MS telescope being moved into position. LAS exterior telescope as it is moved. MS man gets into capsule to study sky by mirror reflections. CU ditto. MCU capsule being moved into position. MS CU ditto. MCU the Astronomer Royal, Sir Richard Woolley prepares to look through telescope. MS Sir Richard Woolley looking through telescope. CU ditto. LAS as telescope is moved into position. GV exterior The Sir Isaac Newton Telescope.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Science and technology; Space
- Locations
- England; Sussex; Herstmonceux
- Footage sources
- Royal Observatory
- Card file number
- 93025
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 158
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How to cite this record
'Stairway to the Stars', British Movietone News Issue No. 2009, 4 Dec 1967. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27152 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)