| Description | Film of the unveiling of a telescope in Australia, including music and effects. Newsreel footage, not Royal Society copyright. Shows the Australian Astronomical Observatory in Sydney.
The Anglo-Australian Telescope was established after representations had been made to the Australian and British Governments in the mid-1960s by the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society of London. It was decided in April 1967 to build a large optical telescope, similar in design to the 3.8-metre telescope of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the United States. A site for the telescope was chosen on Siding Spring Mountain, near the New South Wales town of Coonabarabran.
Good image quality.
16mm film
Colour
Sound: Optical
Production company: Colorfilm - Sydney
Film stock: Eastman 1974
Film length: 200 |