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The Dead Past

7.5196558mMovieTV MovieScience 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.

DirectorJohn Gorrie
WriterJeremy Paul
ProducerIrene Shubik

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Cast · Directed by John Gorrie

GBGeorge Benson
George Benson
Arnold Potterley
JMJames Maxwell
James Maxwell
Jonas Foster
DLDavid Langton
David Langton
Thaddeus Araman
WGWilloughby Goddard
Willoughby Goddard
Ralph Nimmo
SC
Sylvia Coleridge
Caroline Potterley
SC
Shirley Cain
Miss Clements
FA
Frances Alger
Laurel
PG
Pat Gorman
Technician (uncredited)

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