Natures Blackout Eclipse Issue Title - Lights Please ! (1940)

L/S’s of picturesque countryside on Calvina, Cape Colony. The commentator says that scientists have arrived here to study the solar eclipse. Several shots of scientist Doctor Jackson with very large telescope. The telescopes are prepared for taking photographs of the eclipse. L/S’s and M/S of Pathe cameraman setting up camera on a hill. M/S’s of numerous kids watching the eclipse. L/S’s of the shadow moving across the Sun until it is completely covered. Good footage of the corona. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews co