16:40 ....Guy in a suit & tie working the truck loading dock !!
@tomstrum62592 ай бұрын
Just amazing Tv set manufacturing documentary....Had no idea early 1960's Tv production utilized large Pc boards & such advanced assembly technology....
@redlogicsquare2 ай бұрын
Gotta love that opening noise floor. 😎
@perkinscrane2 ай бұрын
I wonder why the “C” was dimmed out in the GEC logo at the beginning of the film.
@Midlander19563 ай бұрын
Does anyone else see the irony of a colour film used to show production of a black and white tv? I just smiled as I remember watching a ‘huge’ 26 inch b&w tv and thinking, “wow”! Great film….
@rectify20033 ай бұрын
Amazing
@Gannett20114 ай бұрын
I'm always torn when watching these films. On the one hand, I worry about what consumerism is doing to the environment; do we really need all this stuff? On the other, seeing the innovative techniques developed by manufacturing engineers is awesome. And it was techniques like the ones seen here that brought the prices of consumer goods like TVs down. I'm also saddened that manufacturing like this left the UK. There is no reason except greed that manufacturing couldn't have stayed in the UK. Frank Phillip's clipped and clear narration just put the cherry on top for me!
@godfreypoon51484 ай бұрын
No, you don't really need all this stuff! Please, stop buying it! And with the money you no longer need, you should take a more menial job.
@KhatuYogesh7 ай бұрын
.......we could not understood this how electronics stuff manufacturing totally shifted to China.......and we lost our core competency of manufacturing and processing....
@TIMBOWERMAN7 ай бұрын
GEC Cutoff in the titles makes it look like GE which is a well known American company. GE stands for General Electric and has no connexion with GEC.
@richardmoss59347 ай бұрын
We had an Ekco TV, purchased in 1957 and kept alive untill 1977 when my father finally relented and switch to colour!!
@richardh1009 ай бұрын
Great i have this on a BVWS DVD , my dream job if I was born in time😮
@MirlitronOne10 ай бұрын
Forty years later and George Simpson had killed GEC off, together with Marconi and Plessey as collateral damage.
@nigelsears719111 ай бұрын
many years of trouble free lol who are they kidding they barely made it past getting the legs screwed on without something failing , valves were not reliable and deteriorated quite quickly , and we didn't have much tv broadcast then so most wernt used more than a few hours of an evening each day , often easier to repair though
@mullioncove111 ай бұрын
I don't know about years of trouble free service, I remember repairing them : ) Hot valves and printed boards caused the paxoline boards to carbonate. Printed boards were better suited to transistors God Bless
@daveys11 ай бұрын
Great film!
@davids844911 ай бұрын
14:57 I wonder if that chap was correcting a fault .......
@michaelbyrne5507 Жыл бұрын
Great video. GEC were ahead of the time.
@rodjames Жыл бұрын
not a scrap of the disgusting polystyrene foam in sight
@rodjames Жыл бұрын
most of these people are as dead as the TVs now
@rosewhite2135 Жыл бұрын
Still feels a bit tearful, even after all these years. This was when the magic drained away from television, and it's been going down the pan ever since. What made television so special back then, was that it needed people to make it work, and you knew that unseen, miles away, whatever the weather, there were people working behind the scenes to put those images on our screens.
@19seventy97 Жыл бұрын
I have one of these, well a BT318 made in 1960. I often wonder if any of its own parts are included somewhere in this video
@marcse7en Жыл бұрын
I'm sure that the RADIO TRADE were grateful they were informed that 405 LINE TV was closing down! ... Wouldn't want any RADIO LISTENERS inconvenienced when their 405 LINE RADIOS stopped working in January 1985! 😂
@scottpeacock549227 күн бұрын
What on earth you talking about, 405 lines isn't radio, they talking about the closure of the 405 line television service which been in service since 1936.
@crist67mustang Жыл бұрын
Minute 3:27 we can see Queen Elizabeth working in the television sets manufacturing in 1960. 😛 Greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica
@robsemail Жыл бұрын
0:45 Back when people put on their Sunday best to go to the living room and watch TV.
@chemistmanuk Жыл бұрын
Huw Thomas newscaster and Laurie West at the weather map!
@LarryKelly Жыл бұрын
Reminded me how much I hated factory work. Sometimes the boredom made the day seem to never end.
@thomaspain3810 Жыл бұрын
Please put the c back on the logo at the front of the film. GEC was a British company and had no connection with GE of America. We need to be proud of our British heritage!! Otherwise a very good bit of history.
@christopherhulse83852 жыл бұрын
Vivid picture truth! now there's a great selling point.
@ericrawson29092 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful set. I love it.
@BM-jy6cb2 жыл бұрын
I note the packaging is all paper and cardboard, to which many companies are only now returning in order to boost their green credentials. Funny how the wheel turns full circle.
@BlondieSL Жыл бұрын
Yup. And just like how now too, a lot of major big stores are getting rid of plastic bags and returning to paper bag. Of course, some don't do that and now try to SELL reusable bags. Full circle!
@eddiewillers12 жыл бұрын
Nice to see a mention of an oft overlooked genius, Alan Blumlein - who had also invented 'Binaural' (ie: stereophonic) sound.
@RWBHere2 жыл бұрын
15:00 Thump it to make it work. 😉
@BlondieSL Жыл бұрын
LOL Back in the day, that was in fact one of the first things we did to try to find a fault in a set. Especially a set that would start to work after a slap on the top or sides. LOL You'd be surprised how this revealed a problem (or problems) quickly. works with people too! LOL just say'n 😂😅🤣
@RWBHere2 жыл бұрын
Plenty of chances for Lead poisoning in that factory, too.
@BlondieSL Жыл бұрын
Oh yes. That was an issue for sure. And mercury too. Well... lots of other "bad things" as well.
@RWBHere2 жыл бұрын
Ahh; the glory days of the lethal live chassis! Many a TV servicing engineer had received painful, and sometimes deadly, 250V electric shocks from TV and wireless sets in houses where the live and neutral (now line and neutral) wires were transposed, or where a reversible two pin mains extension connector had been added to the cable. If that had happened, the chassis was at 250V instead of roughly zero. Modern equipment with a live chassis is illegal, for safety reasons.
@hairybear7705 Жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember that little death trap very well. I was in a house loft, aglining a TV antenna while the 'guvnor' was down stairs shouting "a bit to the left.......hold it there". Holding the aluminium TV antenna in one hand....I stretch over and grabbed a cold water pipe to steady myself. Wham! Truely the most severe electric shock in my entire TV workshop career.
@BlondieSL Жыл бұрын
@@hairybear7705 I think that I have you beat. LOL I started learning TV Repairs as a teen. Yeah yeah, I was one of THOSE kids who got involved in Electronics at a stupidly young age. So here was my STUPID move.... and I still remember this like it was yesterday, but it was in the mid 1970s.... I was working on a Sears Color portable TV (which, as many may know, was actually a GE chassis and CRT). I got all the major repairs done, but had to do a rebuild on the tuner. Being young and not getting a lot of guidance when needed, my habit at the time was to power on the set to do troubleshooting, then turn it off. Being new to all that, I was very nervous about the high voltage wire to the CRT. So what I'd do, is take a long screw driver, ground it, then stick it under the rubber to discharge the tube. I had the set connected to a coax cable wire that of course, was grounded. I turned on the TV, but all of a sudden, NO PICTURE! As it was on, I realized that SILLY ME, I still had the screw driver... the GROUNDED SCREW DRIVE under the rubber protector on the CRT. Being young, one somethings doesn't think things through. sigh... I had the coax cable/antenna wire in my left hand.. GROUNDED... and then realized the screwdriver was the problem!!!! But instead of pulling the power plug and taking the screw driver out, sigh... bad memory here... I took off the GROUND WIRE that is attached to the screwdriver, AT THE GROUND CONTACT!!! Yes... you got it.... grounded coax in left hand, 28KV in the right hand! The electrocution froze me in place... in a panic, I couldn't move and all I could think of was to just let myself fall backwards to pull the wires out of my hands. Fortunately, that worked! THAT was the shock of my life, literally. Needless to say, I was left with a minor heart problem for the rest of my life.... fortunately, not life threatening. sigh... Lesson learned! The take away never let 28,000 volts course through your body, on hand to the other.... not good.
@krisraps2 жыл бұрын
I Just LOVE This Video. From HOW They Talk And Everything About It. Printed Wiring panels, Ohh, So retro
@imixmuan90812 жыл бұрын
Wow. People in Britain used to MAKE things. I have a theory, its probably not original, but nations are only great when they make stuff, not when they just consume stuff. That is my theory.
@leeshepherd65122 жыл бұрын
That factory is absolutely grim. Far too cramped and dark.
@michaelroberts11202 жыл бұрын
These factory scenes, showing not a single Pakistani or black employee are in sharp contrast to the UK of today . By the way, does the UK even have electronic product factories anymore?
@michaelroberts11202 жыл бұрын
At the end the lorry loaded with tellys drives off, to deliver its gifts to license paying Brits all over the country.
@njm1971nyc2 жыл бұрын
Love this stuff. The voiceover is priceless 😄
@dangruner59263 жыл бұрын
As someone young, I am amazed at the level of automation even back then. Attention to quality seems to be much better than today. Back when Britain was great.
@BlondieSL Жыл бұрын
It wasn't just Britain. It was like that all over the world. In the USA, RCA put the highest quality into their design and builds. Precision was paramount as well the highest quality of parts and workmanship. The RCA color CRT was literally the best on the planet back in the 1950s to early 1970s. But as time goes on, quality has left the scene for the most part. The TVs made now are no longer made by the "big guys." They are mostly made in China with low quality parts, bad workmanship and lack of care in design and build. Panasonic still made good TVs. We have 2 Panasonic TVs, plasma, one is 3D and other than minor repairs, they are flawless. And as for repairs, the only issues I have had to fix is on the 3D TV, it started to turn itself off after being turned on. It turns out that this was a good thing! One of the cooling fans stopped spinning and the system detected that, so went into shutdown mode. That was an easy fix. But I noticed that one of the main power supply caps (a large one) was just beginning to bulge at the top. I replaced that and it's been working fine ever since. The other Panasonic, not 3D, failed once and that too was just a power supply cap. Easy fix., BUT.... I've been through 4 SONY 4K TVS! The first one, that I just use for the computer, was excellent for 2 years and it started to have failing LEDs. That was replaced under warranty with a GARBAGE model. I basically brought that home, connected it, only to find that it has these very thing, PINK super fine hairline marks on the inner layers. I returned that one that day and they gave me another one (this is Best Buy). I get THAT one home (same model) got it all set up only to find that it had an actual CRACK right in the center/bottom of the screen. It was a perfect 1/2 circle! Also, INSIDE the layers! By this time, the manager of this BestBuy location was involved and he appreciated that I wasn't angry. I explained that I was a TV Repairman long ago, so this kind of thing wasn't new. The good thing, though, was that for that month, a Sony rep was in the store. We had some chats in private and he admitted that this particular model is known to have problems and he didn't understand why Sony was still sending them out instead of doing a recall on them. Needless to say, I didn't want a 4th one, so the manager offered me a top of the line model that was like $700 more. I said that was too much for just a "computer monitor". So, he was very cool about it. He gave it to me for cost,which then only cost me $100 more, including another 4 year warranty. LOL It's been great. Knock on faux wood. 😂😅🤣
@luviskol3 жыл бұрын
Every care and attention apart from the set being transported upside down on the wagon at 16:43
@gabrielvieira65293 жыл бұрын
that is sooo cool
@jamesoneill25563 жыл бұрын
405 line b&w tv. I remember it well but not fondly.
@MrSerendipity013 жыл бұрын
Notice how the narrator says, 'soldering' and not, 'soddering'. USA viewers take note!
@wendybockman30792 жыл бұрын
Bravo. My dad always said soldering. In Canada they say soldering too,always grates. To hear it.
@leswatson Жыл бұрын
The Chinese get it all wrong by calling soldering "welding." 🤣
@NigelDixon19523 жыл бұрын
Oh, I remember it well! I was 3 at the time when ITV started. I remember my dad's workmate came round to our house house with his special 'long screwdriver' , with which he fine tuned channel 10 so that we could watch the new service. Yes, I really should have been more bothered about playing with my toys at that age, but I really do remember watching ITV right from the start! There followed a life long love of everything electronic.
@dw88403 жыл бұрын
I wonder how often a CRT imploded while installing them?
@wanderdasilvapinto26743 жыл бұрын
Por isso eram duráveis, componentes de ótima qualidade e montado por mulheres.👏👏👏👏
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16:40 ....Guy in a suit & tie working the truck loading dock !!
Just amazing Tv set manufacturing documentary....Had no idea early 1960's Tv production utilized large Pc boards & such advanced assembly technology....
Gotta love that opening noise floor. 😎
I wonder why the “C” was dimmed out in the GEC logo at the beginning of the film.
Does anyone else see the irony of a colour film used to show production of a black and white tv? I just smiled as I remember watching a ‘huge’ 26 inch b&w tv and thinking, “wow”! Great film….
Amazing
I'm always torn when watching these films. On the one hand, I worry about what consumerism is doing to the environment; do we really need all this stuff? On the other, seeing the innovative techniques developed by manufacturing engineers is awesome. And it was techniques like the ones seen here that brought the prices of consumer goods like TVs down. I'm also saddened that manufacturing like this left the UK. There is no reason except greed that manufacturing couldn't have stayed in the UK. Frank Phillip's clipped and clear narration just put the cherry on top for me!
No, you don't really need all this stuff! Please, stop buying it! And with the money you no longer need, you should take a more menial job.
.......we could not understood this how electronics stuff manufacturing totally shifted to China.......and we lost our core competency of manufacturing and processing....
GEC Cutoff in the titles makes it look like GE which is a well known American company. GE stands for General Electric and has no connexion with GEC.
We had an Ekco TV, purchased in 1957 and kept alive untill 1977 when my father finally relented and switch to colour!!
Great i have this on a BVWS DVD , my dream job if I was born in time😮
Forty years later and George Simpson had killed GEC off, together with Marconi and Plessey as collateral damage.
many years of trouble free lol who are they kidding they barely made it past getting the legs screwed on without something failing , valves were not reliable and deteriorated quite quickly , and we didn't have much tv broadcast then so most wernt used more than a few hours of an evening each day , often easier to repair though
I don't know about years of trouble free service, I remember repairing them : ) Hot valves and printed boards caused the paxoline boards to carbonate. Printed boards were better suited to transistors God Bless
Great film!
14:57 I wonder if that chap was correcting a fault .......
Great video. GEC were ahead of the time.
not a scrap of the disgusting polystyrene foam in sight
most of these people are as dead as the TVs now
Still feels a bit tearful, even after all these years. This was when the magic drained away from television, and it's been going down the pan ever since. What made television so special back then, was that it needed people to make it work, and you knew that unseen, miles away, whatever the weather, there were people working behind the scenes to put those images on our screens.
I have one of these, well a BT318 made in 1960. I often wonder if any of its own parts are included somewhere in this video
I'm sure that the RADIO TRADE were grateful they were informed that 405 LINE TV was closing down! ... Wouldn't want any RADIO LISTENERS inconvenienced when their 405 LINE RADIOS stopped working in January 1985! 😂
What on earth you talking about, 405 lines isn't radio, they talking about the closure of the 405 line television service which been in service since 1936.
Minute 3:27 we can see Queen Elizabeth working in the television sets manufacturing in 1960. 😛 Greetings from 🇨🇱 Santiago Chile SouthAmerica
0:45 Back when people put on their Sunday best to go to the living room and watch TV.
Huw Thomas newscaster and Laurie West at the weather map!
Reminded me how much I hated factory work. Sometimes the boredom made the day seem to never end.
Please put the c back on the logo at the front of the film. GEC was a British company and had no connection with GE of America. We need to be proud of our British heritage!! Otherwise a very good bit of history.
Vivid picture truth! now there's a great selling point.
What a beautiful set. I love it.
I note the packaging is all paper and cardboard, to which many companies are only now returning in order to boost their green credentials. Funny how the wheel turns full circle.
Yup. And just like how now too, a lot of major big stores are getting rid of plastic bags and returning to paper bag. Of course, some don't do that and now try to SELL reusable bags. Full circle!
Nice to see a mention of an oft overlooked genius, Alan Blumlein - who had also invented 'Binaural' (ie: stereophonic) sound.
15:00 Thump it to make it work. 😉
LOL Back in the day, that was in fact one of the first things we did to try to find a fault in a set. Especially a set that would start to work after a slap on the top or sides. LOL You'd be surprised how this revealed a problem (or problems) quickly. works with people too! LOL just say'n 😂😅🤣
Plenty of chances for Lead poisoning in that factory, too.
Oh yes. That was an issue for sure. And mercury too. Well... lots of other "bad things" as well.
Ahh; the glory days of the lethal live chassis! Many a TV servicing engineer had received painful, and sometimes deadly, 250V electric shocks from TV and wireless sets in houses where the live and neutral (now line and neutral) wires were transposed, or where a reversible two pin mains extension connector had been added to the cable. If that had happened, the chassis was at 250V instead of roughly zero. Modern equipment with a live chassis is illegal, for safety reasons.
Yes, I remember that little death trap very well. I was in a house loft, aglining a TV antenna while the 'guvnor' was down stairs shouting "a bit to the left.......hold it there". Holding the aluminium TV antenna in one hand....I stretch over and grabbed a cold water pipe to steady myself. Wham! Truely the most severe electric shock in my entire TV workshop career.
@@hairybear7705 I think that I have you beat. LOL I started learning TV Repairs as a teen. Yeah yeah, I was one of THOSE kids who got involved in Electronics at a stupidly young age. So here was my STUPID move.... and I still remember this like it was yesterday, but it was in the mid 1970s.... I was working on a Sears Color portable TV (which, as many may know, was actually a GE chassis and CRT). I got all the major repairs done, but had to do a rebuild on the tuner. Being young and not getting a lot of guidance when needed, my habit at the time was to power on the set to do troubleshooting, then turn it off. Being new to all that, I was very nervous about the high voltage wire to the CRT. So what I'd do, is take a long screw driver, ground it, then stick it under the rubber to discharge the tube. I had the set connected to a coax cable wire that of course, was grounded. I turned on the TV, but all of a sudden, NO PICTURE! As it was on, I realized that SILLY ME, I still had the screw driver... the GROUNDED SCREW DRIVE under the rubber protector on the CRT. Being young, one somethings doesn't think things through. sigh... I had the coax cable/antenna wire in my left hand.. GROUNDED... and then realized the screwdriver was the problem!!!! But instead of pulling the power plug and taking the screw driver out, sigh... bad memory here... I took off the GROUND WIRE that is attached to the screwdriver, AT THE GROUND CONTACT!!! Yes... you got it.... grounded coax in left hand, 28KV in the right hand! The electrocution froze me in place... in a panic, I couldn't move and all I could think of was to just let myself fall backwards to pull the wires out of my hands. Fortunately, that worked! THAT was the shock of my life, literally. Needless to say, I was left with a minor heart problem for the rest of my life.... fortunately, not life threatening. sigh... Lesson learned! The take away never let 28,000 volts course through your body, on hand to the other.... not good.
I Just LOVE This Video. From HOW They Talk And Everything About It. Printed Wiring panels, Ohh, So retro
Wow. People in Britain used to MAKE things. I have a theory, its probably not original, but nations are only great when they make stuff, not when they just consume stuff. That is my theory.
That factory is absolutely grim. Far too cramped and dark.
These factory scenes, showing not a single Pakistani or black employee are in sharp contrast to the UK of today . By the way, does the UK even have electronic product factories anymore?
At the end the lorry loaded with tellys drives off, to deliver its gifts to license paying Brits all over the country.
Love this stuff. The voiceover is priceless 😄
As someone young, I am amazed at the level of automation even back then. Attention to quality seems to be much better than today. Back when Britain was great.
It wasn't just Britain. It was like that all over the world. In the USA, RCA put the highest quality into their design and builds. Precision was paramount as well the highest quality of parts and workmanship. The RCA color CRT was literally the best on the planet back in the 1950s to early 1970s. But as time goes on, quality has left the scene for the most part. The TVs made now are no longer made by the "big guys." They are mostly made in China with low quality parts, bad workmanship and lack of care in design and build. Panasonic still made good TVs. We have 2 Panasonic TVs, plasma, one is 3D and other than minor repairs, they are flawless. And as for repairs, the only issues I have had to fix is on the 3D TV, it started to turn itself off after being turned on. It turns out that this was a good thing! One of the cooling fans stopped spinning and the system detected that, so went into shutdown mode. That was an easy fix. But I noticed that one of the main power supply caps (a large one) was just beginning to bulge at the top. I replaced that and it's been working fine ever since. The other Panasonic, not 3D, failed once and that too was just a power supply cap. Easy fix., BUT.... I've been through 4 SONY 4K TVS! The first one, that I just use for the computer, was excellent for 2 years and it started to have failing LEDs. That was replaced under warranty with a GARBAGE model. I basically brought that home, connected it, only to find that it has these very thing, PINK super fine hairline marks on the inner layers. I returned that one that day and they gave me another one (this is Best Buy). I get THAT one home (same model) got it all set up only to find that it had an actual CRACK right in the center/bottom of the screen. It was a perfect 1/2 circle! Also, INSIDE the layers! By this time, the manager of this BestBuy location was involved and he appreciated that I wasn't angry. I explained that I was a TV Repairman long ago, so this kind of thing wasn't new. The good thing, though, was that for that month, a Sony rep was in the store. We had some chats in private and he admitted that this particular model is known to have problems and he didn't understand why Sony was still sending them out instead of doing a recall on them. Needless to say, I didn't want a 4th one, so the manager offered me a top of the line model that was like $700 more. I said that was too much for just a "computer monitor". So, he was very cool about it. He gave it to me for cost,which then only cost me $100 more, including another 4 year warranty. LOL It's been great. Knock on faux wood. 😂😅🤣
Every care and attention apart from the set being transported upside down on the wagon at 16:43
that is sooo cool
405 line b&w tv. I remember it well but not fondly.
Notice how the narrator says, 'soldering' and not, 'soddering'. USA viewers take note!
Bravo. My dad always said soldering. In Canada they say soldering too,always grates. To hear it.
The Chinese get it all wrong by calling soldering "welding." 🤣
Oh, I remember it well! I was 3 at the time when ITV started. I remember my dad's workmate came round to our house house with his special 'long screwdriver' , with which he fine tuned channel 10 so that we could watch the new service. Yes, I really should have been more bothered about playing with my toys at that age, but I really do remember watching ITV right from the start! There followed a life long love of everything electronic.
I wonder how often a CRT imploded while installing them?
Por isso eram duráveis, componentes de ótima qualidade e montado por mulheres.👏👏👏👏
Wot's that on the telly?