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Title:

Castles in the sky [DVD] / director, Gillies MacKinnon.

Format:

[DVD] /

Publisher:

BBC America,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander,--Sir,--1892-1973--Drama.
Engineers--Great Britain--Drama.
Radar--History--Drama.
Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Radar--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain--Drama.
Feature films.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Fiction films.

Other Authors:

MacKinnon, Gillies, film director.
Izzard, Eddie, actor.
Fraser, Laura, actor.
Tulloch, Arran, actor.
Harcourt, Lesley, actor.
BBC America, publisher.

Notes:

Title from web page. 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.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)918866530

UPC:

883929488278

Locations:

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)