Bibliograph

Castles in the sky, director, Gillies MacKinnon

Type

Label

Castles in the sky, director, Gillies MacKinnon

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Castles in the sky

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

918866530

Responsibility statement

director, Gillies MacKinnon

Runtime

Summary

A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little known 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

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification