Zenith Television and Long-distance Radio. April 1949.
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‘Only Zenith Television Brings You the Giant Circle Screen ... and Bulls Eye Automatic Tuning’
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For more, including the content of these transmissions and the first television presenter, see the full blog post.
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But the unsatisfactory nature of the cameras being at the Ball seems to have meant that no further return visits to film studios were undertaken in the final year of pre-war television.
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The ‘Lion’ was there too, and there were speeches from the Mayor of St Pancras and the Lord Mayor of Birmingham.
For more about early television’s alignment with the modernity of the railways, see the links in the full blog post:
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The arias were sung in French, and the small six-piece orchestra (piano, two violins, viola, cello and bass) was conducted by operetta and light music composer Mark Lubbock.
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I wrote previously at this link about the reprise in March 1938 of W.B. Yeats’ supernatural drama The Words Upon the Window Pane, and it was on Friday 17 September 1937 that Eric Crozier’s production was first transmitted:
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'... news of the quick, sudden, mobile sort, the real news of the tape-machine, the singing telegraph wires, the special edition and the strident voice of the paper boy.'
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For how Bower worked with 'High Yellow' nearly 20 years later, click through to the blog:
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George More O’Ferrall was the producer entrusted with this fluff. ‘The result,’ the critic concluded, ‘was something between a stage play and a film – that is to say, good television entertainment.’
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The OB appears to have been planned along the lines of a previous one, in November 1938, from Under Your Hat at the Palace Theatre, which had Leslie Mitchell interviewing celebrity arrivals, interviewing the stars in their dressing rooms, and transmitting early scenes of the show.
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For details of the final broadcast, please click through to the full blog post:
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For more, please click through to the blog post, but...
NOTE that the Illuminations website will be offline for up to 24 hours from 10am BST on Wednesday 10 September to allow us to migrate to a new server.
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As the weekly’s radio drama critic, she had seen a demonstration during the Radiolympia broadcasts arranged ahead of the BBC’s ‘high definition’ service going on air on 2 November 1936.
For her richly interesting response, please click through to the blog post.
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...and an ‘Antelope’ by John Skeaping, an artist who appeared in several of Adams’ inter-war broadcasts.
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For more about the show, its setting and its screen language, click through to the full blog post:
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... We are all standing at the top of the steps outside the front entrance. The rain has cleared and the sun comes out for a moment. Beginners’ luck.'
For more of how this first OB played out, click to the full post:
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I wish there was more detail in the BBC publicity image I've included, but it shows that by around 10pm the set was crowded with ‘all available artists, BBC staff and RMA [that is, Radio Manufacturers’ Association] staff’, who together sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’.
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'A large percentage of eligible wireless enthusiasts. professional and amateurs. are either visiting the exhibition or employed on the stands.'
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Less than 48 hours later Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain informed listeners to the Home Service that, ‘This country is at war with Germany.’
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'For by picking artists of quite exceptional individuality and talent in various lines the authorities skilfully obscured the fact that the problems of presenting these lines in television are still unsolved.'
More of GWG's thoughts:
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As The Five Lai Founs and the fancy dress party-goers might have told them. Eventually, after a clutch of largely unsuccessful exercises, the idea gradually lost favour.
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... , and a big finale with the BBC Television Orchestra with Ms McKay again, this time singing ‘Here’s Looking at You’.
For a video, and for further details of the transmissions for Radiolympia, click through to the blog post:
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The remarkable photograph of the occasion seems to capture a moment when a way of life that had changed little in several hundred years encountered modernity’s media world.
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Almost all of the modern drama that was played was set in the city, whether London or an urban location across the Atlantic. Philpotts’ drama was rare among early television plays in being set in the English countryside.
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There was more drama too, when on the night another finalist, Miss Terri Lucas, declined to appear in a bathing costume...
But for that and more, please click through to the blog post:
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For Gander's measured assessment of where television was a year on from the start of AP, please click through to the full blog post:
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For more from the report of The Scotsman, including the visit to the Baird studio, please click through to the blog post:
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For more on Mr Cox's problem, please click through to the full blog post:
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For more about the BBC's first broadcasts, do please click through to the blog post:
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