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Castles In The Sky [videorecording (DVD)] / director, Gillies MacKinnon.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: BBC/WarnerPublisher: [United States] : BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc., [2015]Distributor: Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video Inc., [2015]Description: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, colorContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Cast: Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt, Alex Jennings, David Hayman, Julian Rhind-tutt.Summary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.
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Movies Flesherton Branch Shelves Castles in the Sky Drama (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 32241001083478

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Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt, Alex Jennings, David Hayman, Julian Rhind-tutt.

A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.

OFRB rating: PG.

Home use only.

English audio ; optional English (SDH) subtitles.

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