Yorkshire : passing shadows.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Crowds.

Solar eclipses.

Telescopes.

England--Yorkshire.

Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Dyson, Frank Watson, 1868-1939.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (56 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1927.

Summary:

Main title. "The patient labours of the Royal Observatory Camp at Giggleswick rewarded by a perfect view of the total eclipse". Two astronomers at work on some apparatus. Sir Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal, looking through a telescope, followed by several other observers. The eclipse beginning, cloudspass in front but the action is clearly visible. Five women amd a girl watching through smoked glass, and a shot of the corona. Filmed by Purnell.

Credits:

Cameramen: Purnell, Frank W.

Notes:

[Eclipse occured 29th June]

Issue number: 827-1 ; Story number within issue: 2 of 5

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.