Pre-war Television 1937

http://www.scottpeter.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Vintagetech.htm
This is a short video of an HMV 901 mirror lid television from 1937 displaying clips from an early demonstration film. The video and sound signals are being converted for 405 line operation and modulate the original 45MHz/41.5MHz carriers which are fed into the aerial socket of the HMV 901. Occasionally you will see narrow dark horizontal bands on the the picture. These are only aliasing effects from the camcorder that is capturing the scene and are not present in reality.

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[pmscott6135]

Yes, the 405 line system seen here used very similar structure to the 625 and 525 systems that are still in use today. Vertical line scan was really a facet of the mechanical era of Baird or Jenkins et al.

The 405 line system that provided public television broadcasting for the BBC from November 1936 was in continuous operation, barring WWII, up and until 1984.

[pmscott6135]

Perhaps, but we live in very different era.

[pmscott6135]

You are right. There is next to no recorded material from British pre-war television broadcasts. This video show a few exerts from a demonstration film.The acts shown

did appear on television but what you are seeing was captured by a film camera and not a television camera. The film was made in 1937.

[pmscott6135]

Yes, any type of video source than can be displayed on present day 625 line televisions can be displayed on this 1937 television. The picture will not be in colour though.

[pmscott6135]

Even in the 1980s there were mirror lid televisions. Check out the Citizen pocket TV from 1984

hampshirepictures.co.uk/retrot­echnosmall/lcdtv2s.jpg

and Casio TV-1000 in 1985.

taschenfernseher.de/bilder-neu­/tv-1000-gr.jpg

[pmscott6135]

@S0lidState

Only rather wealth people.

Only one channel and a couple of hours each day.

No. It was designed and built in England. Germany was not far behind with its TV development though.

[0M9H4X]

yeeeeeeah.

tubes so long and the need for a mirror because the picture was inverted.

that is TOO old for me. im more crazy about the 80s :D

[iEugene1994]

@0M9H4X This is pretty new and nice technology , read about mechanical TV .

[whitedaddy4u]

Ahhh, that BBC "Enunciated English", even the woman singing. LOL.

[Tom3421]

@pmscott6135 When was created first color tv in history and where in USA or GB ? I know the beginning of making color movies in GB was about 1920.

[INeedToLiveLonger]

@Mahelf Incredible story, was Mickey Mouse playback continued from "paused" moment or they played it back from very beginning?

[flvnow]

Was this a vertical scan unit or horizontal as per the USA & German sets. Pity there aren't any of the projection sets of the era still around

[willianOr1]

mais que merda de programação,

[wellohmeeeeeee]

Is this a film showing? - made at the time about TV, or a recording of the contemporary broadcasting TV edited together? or filmed TV ? hope that clear.

I thought no TV actually exsisted as video tape or equivlt did not exsist?