The Dead Past

The Dead Past — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 25, 1965
• Runtime
• 58 min
• Genres
• TV Movie, Science Fiction
• Director
• John Gorrie

The Dead Past — Cast

George Benson Arnold Potterley James Maxwell Jonas Foster David Langton Thaddeus Araman Willoughby Goddard Ralph Nimmo

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Sylvia Coleridge Caroline Potterley

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Shirley Cain Miss Clements

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Frances Alger Laurel

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Pat Gorman Technician (uncredited)