RADAR DISPLAYS: MALVERN 1961 [Main Title]

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  • Title: RADAR DISPLAYS: MALVERN 1961 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: TRE 253
  • Other titles: COLLECTION OF RADAR FILMS FROM TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT, MALVERN [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Research film showing a compilation of radar Plan Position Indicator (PPI) displays of air traffic and bird migration between 1958 and 1961.
  • Description: - 'General Air Activity' - 'Weather Front' - 'Stacking at London Airport' - 'Farnborough flypast' - 'Radar observation of bird migration' - 'Spring migration, Easterly movement' - 'Autumn migration' - 'Spring migration during a cold North-Easterly wind' - 'Bushy Hill 1330hrs 21/8/58, 1200hrs 22/8/58. Straight radar 80 n.miles' - 'Ring echoes show starlings leaving roosts' - 'Suns noise wedge on PPI indicates dawn'
  • Alternative Title: COLLECTION OF RADAR FILMS FROM TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT, MALVERN [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
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  • Object_Number: TRE 253
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (TRE 253)
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  • Production Date: 1961
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Telecommunications Research Establishment (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 400 ft ca; Running time: 11 mins ca
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