The Dead Past

The Dead Past

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 25, 1965

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

TV Movie

Original Title

The Dead Past

Production Companies

BBC TV

Director

John Gorrie

Description

The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.