Television Is Here Again - Part One

Demonstration film for the newly formed post-war BBC Television Service. This is the first edition of the demonstration film, which was regularly updated to include new versions of the Teleflash to inform viewers of programmes currently in production.

A pot-pourri of TV production,past,present,and future for use as a test film by engineers installing new television receivers.

Featuring recreations of:
On The Spot
Picture Page
School For Scandal

Depicting:
Future development of television
Teleflash programmes currently in production.

Features:

Jasmine Bligh
Elixabeth Welch
Jack Billings
Irene Prador
Margot Fonteyn
Robert Helpman
Frederick Ashton

First transmitted: 24 June 1946

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3nRsCuehXo
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_enRP1UgU
Part Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9kRuk7C9UY
Part Five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRulkkRoh74
Part Six: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-OoRDr9e70
Part Seven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smIU32fsi5I
Part Eight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY3KaneJtaw

This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.

http://www.apts.org.uk

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Preserving the televisual past for the digital future

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[SmoothieJohn]

Thanks for more pure nostalgia!

[IATM29]

Thanks for posting this gem it kind of reminds me of ITV'S launch night video.

[ivorbigunzz]

Another fascinating post of the Worlds early TV history.Thanks.