Programme to commemorate the close-down of the television studios at Alexandra Palace in 1981.
Featuring many of the original personnel responsible for inaugurating the BBC Television Service in 1936.
Produced by the Open University who were in residence in the old studios at the time of the close-down.
Originally transmitted: 4th July 1981
Click the following links to see the other parts of this documentary:
Part 1 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61sgJb24dk0
Part 2 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJ-6EGxo14
Part 3 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYiYV86pFY
Part 4 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnMIluv2yc
This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.
http://www.apts.org.uk
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Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
08:30
It was all a conspiracy to deny Germany air superiority over Britain!
During the war the Alexandra Palace transmitter was used to compromise the electronic navigation of German bombers.
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