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Early Hammer Films short documentary extolling British scientific endeavours in the late fifties, focusing on the atomic industry, boat design, mechanical computing, aeronautical science and space technology. Fascinating footage of an almost forgotten mechanical world, now largely replaced by the virtual space of the computer simulation.
Filmed at a time when British science and technology still held out the promise of an empire dominant at the global cutting edge and yet soon to be surpassed by the Soviet Union and the USA in the sixties.