[Live Transatlantic Television Broadcast]

1619.0021
Andover, Maine
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July 1962
Large satellite dish/observatory rotating with flashing lights and machinery at Bell Systems Earth Station near Andover, Maine; voice-over report on first-ever live transatlantic television transmission with video inside laboratory observatory site; animated satellite circles globe, images of Yves Montand singing; footage of satellite and observatory; local interview with an unidentified man on the expected life-span for satellites in space;

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