The Dead Past

Film

The Dead Past

United Kingdom
Director
John Gorrie
Year
1965

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.

Top cast

Directed by

John Gorrie

Written by

Jeremy Paul

Produced by

Irene Shubik