The Dead Past
1965 · 58 min · ★ 8.0 · TV Movie, Science Fiction
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.
Directed by John Gorrie · Written by Jeremy Paul
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George Benson Arnold Potterley -
James Maxwell Jonas Foster - D David Langton Thaddeus Araman
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Willoughby Goddard Ralph Nimmo - S Sylvia Coleridge Caroline Potterley
- S Shirley Cain Miss Clements
- F Frances Alger Laurel
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Pat Gorman Technician (uncredited)
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