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The Dead Past

1965
Directed byJohn Gorrie
0h 58m

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.

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George BensonArnold PotterleyJames MaxwellJonas FosterDavid Langton
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Thaddeus Araman
Willoughby GoddardRalph Nimmo
Sylvia ColeridgeCaroline Potterley
Shirley CainMiss Clements
Frances AlgerLaurel
Pat GormanTechnician (uncredited)
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TV MovieScience Fiction
STATUSReleased
RATING
NR

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