The Magic Rays of Light: The Beginning of Television - Part 3

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 4 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnMIluv2yc
Part 5 = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWzjr13QUwk

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

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[benjamin308]

@benjamin308 After watching this again I must say I do agree with me here. The program makers had a lot of the people who were actually there and so could have made a decent and interesting documentary. It's a shame this is so weirdly boring. Would have been good also to explain more about what the clips are and when exactly they went out if they did at all.

[benjamin308]

Interesting. I must say though, I don't understand the relevance in the long winded anecdote about the emperor of Abyssinia.