The Dead Past

Name: The Dead Past
Director: John Gorrie
Genre: TV Movie, Science Fiction
Released: 1965-10-25
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 8
Cast: George Benson, James Maxwell, David Langton, Willoughby Goddard, Sylvia Coleridge

1965

58m

TV Movie Science Fiction

Director: John Gorrie

Writer: Jeremy Paul

Overview

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.