Report on the phenomenon of the television personality, including interviews with TV presenters from the early days of broadcasting and also with contemporary presenters.
Presented by Robert Robinson and featuring; Jimmy Savile, Macdonald Hobley, Sylvia Peters, Mary Malcolm, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marghanita Laski, Angela Rippon, Esther Rantzen, Leslie Mitchell, David Frost, Robin Day, Barbara Kelly, Bernard Braden.
Leslie Mitchell announced the official opening of the first high-definition public television service in the world on 2nd November 1936. Forty years later, from the same studio at Alexandra Palace, he traces the origins of television from the beginning of the 20th Century to the first outside broadcast the Coronation of George VI in May 1937.
Featuring televisions first presenters, producers, and technicians.
Transmitted 1 November 1976
This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.
http://www.apts.org.uk
~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
A crumbled piece of paper recovered from a crashed German bomber had written on it a list of navigational aids: light and radio beacons; it also included a codename, 'Knickebein' - 'The Crooked Leg' a name unknown to British intelligence. The unravelling of the secrets of Knickebein by British scientists led to the Battle of the Beams and the first moves in electronic warfare.
Denis Norden hosts another edition of the nostalgia series, this time featuring former television announcers McDonald Hobley, Sylvia Peters and Mary Malcolm, who discuss their time working for the BBC Television Service.
Originally transmitted: 4th July 1986
This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.
http://www.apts.org.uk
~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
Our 203rd YouTube upload & 321 subscribers - that's an increase of 210 since September 2009! Many thanks for all your support and kind comments during the past year of the aptsarchive YouTube channel.
A Society to preserve, for present and future generations, the oral and written history of the pioneers who inaugurated the world's first, regular, public high-definition television service from Alexandra Palace, North London, in 1936.
Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
The videos on this channel are intended for historical research into the development of the BBC Television Service.
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION
Videos on this channel are copyright of the Alexandra Palace Television Society and/or the relevant broadcaster that transmitted them originally.
No personal profit is made from this channel.
This channel conforms with Sections 29.1 and 30.1 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (UK) and the defined concept of "fair use".
The Alexandra Palace Television Society cannot provide copies of any material featured on this channel in any format.
Anyone found re-posting material where the copyright is owned by the Alexandra Palace Television Society will have a copyright infringement notification sent to YouTube and the material will be removed.
~ ~ 1st June 2010~ ~
Our 203rd YouTube upload & 321 subscribers - that's an increase of 210 since September 2009! Many thanks for all your support and kind comments during the past year of the aptsarchive YouTube channel.
Play all
