Excellent program Peter it's amazing what we have today. From way back then

We can see the Alexandra Palace, where BBC is headquartered until 1960s, and later. It become as a transmitter relay station of BBC in London.

@srfurley

8 ай бұрын

It was also the base for the Open University television production. I have been in one of the Alexandra Palace studios, I’m not sure which one it was. What struck me was just how small it was.

Wow. It’s like radio with pictures.

the time that every transmission was an adventure!

I was expecting the actual re-opening, which I would have expected to have continuity announcers and so on; this appears to be a fully prepared programme.

@PeterScott

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are right there was an opening with Jasmine Bligh Standing outside Alexandra Palace and saying "'Remember me?"and introducing a number of acts and future projections for the television service.

@dynamic202tvalt4

Жыл бұрын

Which would then be followed by "Mickey's Gala Premier"

Great archive footage. I like the Danger 7000 volts sign and how most of the technicians are smoking, health and safety! What health and safety? LOL! How things were in the early days of television. Thank you for uploading.

@jonka1

8 ай бұрын

I spent most of my life being the only one in the room not smoking. Even my doctor was holding onto a fag in his consulting room.

A lot of smoking going on in the background

@scottpeacock5492

Жыл бұрын

No smoking ban in work places then.

@marcusdamberger

9 ай бұрын

I'm sure that was great for the equipment, especially the high voltage parts.

This is awesome, thanks for the history! I think this show served multiple purposes, one is to dispel a rumor that a sort of magic was making those pictures.

This is great. I'll never forget when i was 5 to 8 years old when my mom was on several Hollywood Game shows in Los Angeles and Hollywood in the early 60's. Guest Stars that she interacted with included John Astin from the Addams Family and Rose Marie from the Dick Van Dyke Show. We in the live audience had a comedian 'butter us up' ahead of time. It was quite magical.

First I had forgotten just how simple the entertainment was then. Second have a look at the line linearity.

@PeterScott

8 ай бұрын

I know about the left side linearity but I don't think this is due to faulty components. (Fundamental design.)

08:04 - possible inspiration for "Ant Music" (much later pop hit by Adam Ant)?

Did they use the 1939 equipment for the reopening?

@PeterScott

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed they did.

@zl2ady1

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeterScott Thank you Peter

great

Check the size of that Soldering Iron 😁

@2148aa

9 ай бұрын

As all men know. Size matters.

@jeffreyyoung4104

7 ай бұрын

That was when they still soldered to the chassis, and it took a big iron on the set...

@monteceitomoocher

5 ай бұрын

That's for real man size joints!, makes my metcal look proper cissy.

@jeffreyyoung4104

5 ай бұрын

@@monteceitomoocher Yet I use a tiny blowpipe and alcohol lamp for tiny wire and glass work.

405 Line taking home videos to Television is Here Again (BBC TV or first television Service) 1 [B][B][C]

That sounded like Ella Fitzgerald at her best. 🙂👍 Thanks for this one, Peter.

@PeterScott

Жыл бұрын

No, not Ella but Elisabeth Welch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Welch

Luckily this video tape was not erased.

@PeterScott

11 ай бұрын

Nor was the original cine film.

@simoncarswell3515

8 ай бұрын

Very difficult to erase film.

@johnrhodez6829

7 ай бұрын

The celluloid version burns well, that's a sort of permenent erasure....

Cool

interesting the BBC didn't take the restart as a chance to "update" the standards ...to FM sound etc

@PeterScott

3 ай бұрын

The AM sound quality had wide bandwidth and was really excellent. As to changing the vision standard there was much discussion about this but there had been considerable investment in the 405 service and 19,000 sets had been purchased pre-war. The 405 line service was very good and served the country well into the 1980s.

@ceebee23

3 ай бұрын

@@PeterScott That is what I suspected..... and post ware shortages would have been an issue too. I know they did change the aspect ratio later on ...just a pity they didn't adopt colour on 405 ... mmm another story completely

Was the British people informed of the start of the second world war by tv or not? Is there any recording left?

@PeterScott

5 жыл бұрын

There were only about 19,000 televisions in Britain in September 1939 and those were limited to a 50 radius of London. Most of the British population were informed of the state of war by Neville Chamberlain's radio broadcast or by newspaper.

@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek

4 жыл бұрын

TV closed on the day the ultimatum was issued, so only the radio announced that it had been disregarded.

@thomaspynchon2871

4 жыл бұрын

Even if it has been on tv, film stock at the time contained silver so pretty much all pre war bbc film was 'reprocessed' to extract said silver, very few recordings survived for this reason.

@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977

Жыл бұрын

@@PeterScott I listened that speech. Poor guy seemed so sad.

@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek So it didn't close in 1st September?

Who was the female singing stormy weather?

@PeterScott

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Christopher, Just click on the SHOW MORE in the description above. Peter

Looks more like American television than the BBC.

Tv in 1946......more like a movie

@Nolroa

4 ай бұрын

The only way to record television broadcasts before videotape was invented was with a kinescope, It was literally a movie camera adapted to a small screen. In this way, many television broadcasts before the 1950s could be documented. Even television broadcasts from before the Second World War broke out in 1939.