John Logie Baird

[1938 Observer]

I found this one by accident when browsing.

John Logie Baird 1937 John Logie Baird giving a description of his first television camera on display at the Science Museum, London. The television camera was demonstrated to the press and members of The Royal Institution at Frith Street 22, London, on January 27 1926. This was the first public demonstration of true television.

John Logie Baird 100'th anniversary

youtube presenter notes------ Wogan's Talkshow from BBC1 august 10, 1988 with Margaret Baird and Betty Astell commerating the 100'th anniversary of the birth of John Logie Baird - The man who achieved the first real television pictures.
Poor video and audio quality due to my 1000-times viewing of this clip, thereby tearing the original vhs tape.
John Logie Baird 13/8 1888 - 14/6 1946.
Margaret Cecilia Baird (nee Albu) 13/3 1907 - 14/7 1996.
Betty Astell 23/5 1912 - 26/7 2005.

[1938 Observer]

Re: John Logie Baird

First tv movie in the world of 1930 in 30 lines Baird TV system

The BBC had been experimenting with John Logie Baird's primitive 30-line television technology since the previous year, running test transmissions both from Baird's own premises and from their own radio headquarters at Savoy Hill. In the summer of 1930 it was decided that a drama should be produced as a new test for and demonstration of the medium, and The Man With the Flower in His Mouth was selected for use because of its short length of around half an hour, its limited cast of only three characters and its confined setting.
The production was broadcast live on the afternoon of July 14, from a set at the Baird company's headquarters, 133 Long Acre in London. The production starred Earle Grey as 'The Man', Gladys Young as 'The Woman' and Lionel Millard as 'The Customer'. It was directed by the BBC's head of radio drama at the time, Val Gielgud, and produced by Lance Sieveking. The artwork was by C. R. Nevinson.
Generally regarded as a successful experiment, the production was watched at the time by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, with his family from their official residence at 10 Downing Street. Baird had installed one of his prototype 'televisors' here two months previously, so that MacDonald could view the test transmissions he and the BBC were regularly broadcasting.
[edit]1967 re-creation

As the 1930 production was transmitted live, no record survives of it in the archives. However, in 1967, Bill Elliott, a technician working at Granada Television in Manchester, decided to attempt a re-creation of an extract of the play, using a replica of one of the 30-line Baird Televisiors he had constructed himself, which acted as both camera and monitor.
The 30-line signal was sufficiently low-band for Elliott to be able to record the production onto a stereo audio tape recorder, thus preserving it for posterity. Although Elliott did not re-create the entire play and used amateur student actors in the roles, he did secure the services of the original production's producer, Lance Sieveking. Sieveking not only returned to produce the production in an attempt to assure as much authenticity as possible, but he was also able to provide the original artwork used in the play which was used again, and the very same 78-rpm gramophone record which had provided the music in 1930, which was also re-used.
The 1967 production survives in Elliott's hands, and a small segment was seen in the 1985 Granada documentary series Television, a history of the medium.

[Alastair]

Re: John Logie Baird

We have a very good article about him at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ogie_baird.htm

Contrary to misconception, Baird did not stop at 30-line, mechanical black-and-white TV. Before he died in 1946, he had developed a television system which is more advanced than any system in use today: all-electronic, 1,800-line, three-dimensional colour TV.

Alastair