The New Synchrotron At The Telecommunications Centre, Malvern AKA Telecom Centre Malvern (1948)

Malvern, Worcestershire. MS General view of room housing the new Synchrotron at the Telecommunications Centre at Malvern, a controller adjusts the equipment, pan to synchrotron. (2 shots). MS and CU An official (controller) pouring liquid oxygen into vacuum air trap, pan to Synchrotron. CU. Heart of the Synchrotron, around the inside of this container electrons can travel a distance of 1000 miles in the matter of 1/200th of a second. CU. The electron gun. (2 shots). CU. Electron gun, pan to control panel. (2 shots, out-of-focus at end of pan). CU. Hand working a control knob on panel, pan up to control-panel to two cathode ray indicator tubes. CU. One of the indicator faces showing different levels of traces. Cataloguer’s Note: Good general machine noise throughout. Good shots of now-outdated control panels. “Date received“ on original paperwork, reads: 23/6/48. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INT