The Grove Family - Episode One - Part One aptsarchive 2009-09-11 | "Prevention and Cure" Devised by BBC producer John Warrington and written by father and son team Roland and Michael Pertwee, 'The Grove Family' was Britain's first soap opera for adults (two years after the children's equivalent, 'The Appleyards'). The series featured the seven members of a lower middle-class family living in a neat double-fronted house, with father's builder's yard attached, in a quiet road in the London suburb of Hendon. Apart from mum and dad Grove there was 90 year-old grandmother, two elder children of 20 and 18 years old, and two youngsters of 13 and 8. Each episode, lasting between 15 and 20 minutes would seem pretty tame by today's soap opera standards, concentrating on petty squabbles and everyday domestic incidents with a built in 'public service' element such as the virtues of buying a television licence or making one's house burglar proof. The producers reportedly auditioned 270 people before choosing the final cast of seven and thirteen episodes were already written before it came to the screen for the first time on a Friday night in 1954, with the family celebrating the fact that father had just paid off the mortgage on the house after 20 years. In a 1954 interview for TV Mirror, Michael Pertwee explained how the series came about: "We decided from the first to make a separate self-contained incident each week, so that anyone could switch on at any episode and understand what it was all about. Once having decided on the type of series it was necessary to settle on the type of environment. We did a lot of head scratching about a name for a family. The original Bob Grove started off as Bob Welcome who was a commissionaire at a film studio. It was my father who suggested making him a builder. Being in business for himself the man would be subject to all the fluctuations of fortune caused by economic conditions. He would have many more problems being in the open market. Finally we adopted the name Grove after the BBC studios at Lime Grove." With the basic outline of the series in place the Pertwee's then set about developing each family members character. "We decided that if the family was to have some semblance of reality, not every member should have wings sprouting from their shoulders. Thus, the elder son Jack is bit of a smart alick. The elder daughter Pat has a number of boyfriends whom she does not treat very well and grandma is best described as 'crotchety'." The youngest member of 'The Grove Family', actor Christopher Beeny, would become well known as a downstairs servant in the Bellamy household in 'Upstairs Downstairs' and elder son Jack was played by Peter Bryant who would go on to become a successful director and producer particularly remembered for his work on 'Doctor Who', the very same show that Michael Pertwee's brother, Jon, would star in. After three years of writing continuously for the series the two Pertwee's asked the BBC for a holiday and they were granted it...'The Grove Family' was taken off the air never to return. Unfortunately very little footage is known to exist today although a spin-off movie, 'It's A Great Day' was made in 1955 and in 1991 as part of the BBC's Lime Grove celebrations a number of modern day soap stars were gathered to recreate parts of the original script. 'The Royale Family's' Sue Johnston played mum whilst 'Eastenders' Leslie Grantham played dad. Anna Wing appeared as Gran and Nick Berry was Jack. 'The Grove Family', more naïve than dramatic, enjoyed enormous popularity in its time and was arguably the genesis for the soap opera formula that would eventually come to dominate British television. Transmitted: 2nd April 1954 Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zkbzdf2jX0 Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpKMDB7e1xU This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
BBC London News 02 11 2016 - TV80 Celebrations aptsarchive 2019-01-17 | BBC London News report on the TV80 celebrations at Alexandra Palace.Tx: 02-11-2016 - 18:30
In The Garden aptsarchive 2019-01-17 | The National Radio Exhibition held at Olympia in London - hence the name "RadiOlympia". Television was first promoted at this exhibition in 1936 (to help launch the new public service). By 1938 television was the major attraction at the exhibition.This short clip, filmed on 3rd September 1938, gives an insight into the television section of the exhibition and features an edition of "In The Garden" with C.H. Middleton on giving advise on growing dahlias, assisted by announcer Elizabeth Cowell. This film footage is from the Desmond Campbell Archive Collection administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.http://www.apts.org.uk~ APTS ~Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
Antiques Roadshow - featuring the APTS Archive aptsarchive 2018-09-09 | Fiona Bruce introduces an edition of the Antiques Roadshow, (recorded on 20th July 2014) from The Roundhouse in Derby. This building was the world's first and oldest surviving railway roundhouse, where dozens of trains were once serviced.Entertaining items from this edition included a pair of Clarice Cliff bookends won in a pub darts tournament, a silver christening cup with a surprising history and a portrait by a renowned British artist - painted on a fragment of a pillowcase in a prisoner-of-war camp. In addition to these fascinating objects our very own Archivist was able to take along some of the priceless items contained within its growing collection. Although not featured here many more items were taken along and discussed with John Baddeley prior to the recording taking place. Transmitted: 14th October 2014.This video file is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future.Copyright remains with the original holder. No copyright infringement is planned or intentional.Animated logo sequence:Music by: Lino RiseTitle: Channel Intro TuvaluSource: www.free-intro-music.com
Improving The View aptsarchive 2010-05-31 | Improving The View BBC Television Newsreel item featuring the new BBC Research building at Kingswood Warren where current equipment is tested and future television technologies are developed. Originally transmitted: 23rd October 1950 This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
BBC Television Archive aptsarchive 2009-10-19 | The BBC Television Archive. The BBC haven't got copies of everything they broadcast in the archive. Find out why they got the items they've got and how the BBC tries to keep them safe in this interview with Adam Lee, BBC Television Archive expert. The BBC have got about 4 million physical items for TV and radio. That's equivalent to 600,000 hours of TV content and about 350,000 hours of radio. So they are getting very close now to a million hours of material. They also now have a New Media archive, which is keeping a record of the content that goes out on the BBC's websites. The BBC also have large sheet-music collections. They have press cuttings going back 40 years as well. So it's a very large-scale operation. The copyright of this material resides with the British Broadcasting Corporation and is featured here to publicise the work the corporation undertakes in preserving its output on all platforms. 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 futureLight Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100433Artist: http://incompetech.com
The Grove Family - Episode One - Part Two aptsarchive 2009-09-11 | "Prevention and Cure" Devised by BBC producer John Warrington and written by father and son team Roland and Michael Pertwee, 'The Grove Family' was Britain's first soap opera for adults (two years after the children's equivalent, 'The Appleyards'). The series featured the seven members of a lower middle-class family living in a neat double-fronted house, with father's builder's yard attached, in a quiet road in the London suburb of Hendon. Apart from mum and dad Grove there was 90 year-old grandmother, two elder children of 20 and 18 years old, and two youngsters of 13 and 8. Each episode, lasting between 15 and 20 minutes would seem pretty tame by today's soap opera standards, concentrating on petty squabbles and everyday domestic incidents with a built in 'public service' element such as the virtues of buying a television licence or making one's house burglar proof. The producers reportedly auditioned 270 people before choosing the final cast of seven and thirteen episodes were already written before it came to the screen for the first time on a Friday night in 1954, with the family celebrating the fact that father had just paid off the mortgage on the house after 20 years. In a 1954 interview for TV Mirror, Michael Pertwee explained how the series came about: "We decided from the first to make a separate self-contained incident each week, so that anyone could switch on at any episode and understand what it was all about. Once having decided on the type of series it was necessary to settle on the type of environment. We did a lot of head scratching about a name for a family. The original Bob Grove started off as Bob Welcome who was a commissionaire at a film studio. It was my father who suggested making him a builder. Being in business for himself the man would be subject to all the fluctuations of fortune caused by economic conditions. He would have many more problems being in the open market. Finally we adopted the name Grove after the BBC studios at Lime Grove." With the basic outline of the series in place the Pertwee's then set about developing each family members character. "We decided that if the family was to have some semblance of reality, not every member should have wings sprouting from their shoulders. Thus, the elder son Jack is bit of a smart alick. The elder daughter Pat has a number of boyfriends whom she does not treat very well and grandma is best described as 'crotchety'." The youngest member of 'The Grove Family', actor Christopher Beeny, would become well known as a downstairs servant in the Bellamy household in 'Upstairs Downstairs' and elder son Jack was played by Peter Bryant who would go on to become a successful director and producer particularly remembered for his work on 'Doctor Who', the very same show that Michael Pertwee's brother, Jon, would star in. After three years of writing continuously for the series the two Pertwee's asked the BBC for a holiday and they were granted it...'The Grove Family' was taken off the air never to return. Unfortunately very little footage is known to exist today although a spin-off movie, 'It's A Great Day' was made in 1955 and in 1991 as part of the BBC's Lime Grove celebrations a number of modern day soap stars were gathered to recreate parts of the original script. 'The Royale Family's' Sue Johnston played mum whilst 'Eastenders' Leslie Grantham played dad. Anna Wing appeared as Gran and Nick Berry was Jack. 'The Grove Family', more naïve than dramatic, enjoyed enormous popularity in its time and was arguably the genesis for the soap opera formula that would eventually come to dominate British television. Transmitted: 2nd April 1954 Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zkbzdf2jX0 Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpKMDB7e1xU This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
The Grove Family - Episode One - Part Three aptsarchive 2009-09-11 | "Prevention and Cure" Devised by BBC producer John Warrington and written by father and son team Roland and Michael Pertwee, 'The Grove Family' was Britain's first soap opera for adults (two years after the children's equivalent, 'The Appleyards'). The series featured the seven members of a lower middle-class family living in a neat double-fronted house, with father's builder's yard attached, in a quiet road in the London suburb of Hendon. Apart from mum and dad Grove there was 90 year-old grandmother, two elder children of 20 and 18 years old, and two youngsters of 13 and 8. Each episode, lasting between 15 and 20 minutes would seem pretty tame by today's soap opera standards, concentrating on petty squabbles and everyday domestic incidents with a built in 'public service' element such as the virtues of buying a television licence or making one's house burglar proof. The producers reportedly auditioned 270 people before choosing the final cast of seven and thirteen episodes were already written before it came to the screen for the first time on a Friday night in 1954, with the family celebrating the fact that father had just paid off the mortgage on the house after 20 years. In a 1954 interview for TV Mirror, Michael Pertwee explained how the series came about: "We decided from the first to make a separate self-contained incident each week, so that anyone could switch on at any episode and understand what it was all about. Once having decided on the type of series it was necessary to settle on the type of environment. We did a lot of head scratching about a name for a family. The original Bob Grove started off as Bob Welcome who was a commissionaire at a film studio. It was my father who suggested making him a builder. Being in business for himself the man would be subject to all the fluctuations of fortune caused by economic conditions. He would have many more problems being in the open market. Finally we adopted the name Grove after the BBC studios at Lime Grove." With the basic outline of the series in place the Pertwee's then set about developing each family members character. "We decided that if the family was to have some semblance of reality, not every member should have wings sprouting from their shoulders. Thus, the elder son Jack is bit of a smart alick. The elder daughter Pat has a number of boyfriends whom she does not treat very well and grandma is best described as 'crotchety'." The youngest member of 'The Grove Family', actor Christopher Beeny, would become well known as a downstairs servant in the Bellamy household in 'Upstairs Downstairs' and elder son Jack was played by Peter Bryant who would go on to become a successful director and producer particularly remembered for his work on 'Doctor Who', the very same show that Michael Pertwee's brother, Jon, would star in. After three years of writing continuously for the series the two Pertwee's asked the BBC for a holiday and they were granted it...'The Grove Family' was taken off the air never to return. Unfortunately very little footage is known to exist today although a spin-off movie, 'It's A Great Day' was made in 1955 and in 1991 as part of the BBC's Lime Grove celebrations a number of modern day soap stars were gathered to recreate parts of the original script. 'The Royale Family's' Sue Johnston played mum whilst 'Eastenders' Leslie Grantham played dad. Anna Wing appeared as Gran and Nick Berry was Jack. 'The Grove Family', more naïve than dramatic, enjoyed enormous popularity in its time and was arguably the genesis for the soap opera formula that would eventually come to dominate British television. Transmitted: 2nd April 1954 Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzL84mDUWKk Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zkbzdf2jX0 This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
Alexandra Palace during World War II aptsarchive 2009-09-07 | On 1 September 1939 Mickey Mouse put BBC Television to bed for the duration of World War II. The backroom boys hung up their white coats in Studios A & B at Alexandra Palace and mothballed the spanking new equipment including the iconic transmitter mast that dominated the North London skyline. Not quite! Some bright spark in the Ministry of Defence had an idea that the transmitter might be useful to the war effort. At the beginning of the war, exactly what use that might be was still unclear? The story of re-commissioning the transmitter to prosecute the war was a huge state secret. Many of the BBC engineers involved signed the Official Secrets Act and until late in their lives were mostly reluctant to make their story public. There are surprisingly few public records to help historians like Dr Jim Lewis piece together the story. The scientific boffins within the intelligence agencies tasked Professor R.V. Jones with finding out how the transmitter might be used. Based at Bletchley Park , Jones scoured pre-war files of the Secret Intelligence Services to see if their was any evidence of a German secret weapon. At the same time as this research was ongoing in early 1940, BBC engineer Tony Bridgewater was asked to return to Ally Pally to get the transmitter up and running on a care and maintenance basis; he was almost certainly unaware of what for. They would soon be pressed into service. By the end of 1940 intelligence reports showed that a new system was being developed because the British had clearly learned to jam that system. The Y-Gerat system was a groundbreaking a way of keeping ahead of British jamming capabilities. By a stroke of good fortune, the Y-Gerat system was working within the same frequency spectrum (40-50MHz) as the sound and vision television transmitter at.You guessed it, Ally Pally! In October 1940 Wilfred Pafford, another engineer with the BBC since 1932, returned to head up operations at Ally Pally for Operation Domino. He was to remain as the engineer in charge until the end of the War. The MoD decided to set up a listening station at Swains Lane in Highgate. In a set of huts attached to a huge relay transmitter (a huge mast is still in place) used for Outside Broadcasts before the war, a domestic EMI television was modified to listen to the radio traffic between the German command station in Kassel (and elsewhere in France) and the German navigators on bombing raids over Britain. Incoming German bomber pilots would maintain the aircraft's correct bearing by following an instrument which monitored the path of a radio beam. When the German ground station had calculated the pilot was correctly positioned over the target a message from the ground station was sent instructing the bomb aimer to release his load. From February 4th 1941 the date of the first bombing raid using the Y-Gerat system on Britain, by pure coincidence everything was in place to give the Swains Lane and Ally Pally teams a crucial opportunity to interfere with the information being sent to the bomb aimer. In effect, BBC Engineers had devised a system which could 'capture' the German frequency momentarily and create a 'howl round' effect in the German navigational device when the transmitter at Ally Pally was switched on. Imagine the sound when a microphone is turned up too high at a concert: All that in the flying crew's headphones. Once the operators at Swains Lane had decided that the German navigator had missed his opportunity to identify the target, the Ally Pally transmitter would be turned to standby ready to be re-activated for the next bomb aimer. The jamming system may have been relatively crude but it's claimed that no more than 25% of bombers on Y-Gerat controlled air raids released their bomb loads. It's estimated that this system of jamming went undetected until May 1941. So adept had the BBC engineers become that even when the Germans suspected their system was fallible it was simply a matter of retuning the transmitter when the German operators changed the frequency. Ally Pally's role remained undetected. The BBC transmitter can claim credit for undermining a crucial part of the technology which aimed to lay waste to many of our cities. Wilfred Pafford has just celebrated his 101st birthday and now lives in a nursing home in Southern England, the last of the Battle of the Beam engineers. This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
Grandstand - Opening Titles aptsarchive 2009-09-05 | Grandstand is a British television sport programme. Broadcast between 1958 and 2007, it is one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Its first presenter was Peter Dimmock. There were only four main presenters of the programme during its long history: David Coleman (who took over almost immediately from Dimmock), Frank Bough, Des Lynam, and Steve Rider. Changes in the structure of the programme during its last few years, however, meant it did not have a regular main presenter during this time. It was created by Paul Fox and Bryan Cowgill and launched on 11 October 1958. The show was one of the most recognisable on British television, dominating Saturday afternoons on BBC One (just called BBC Television before 1964) and covering nearly every major sporting event in Britain such as the FA Cup final, Wimbledon, the Grand National and the University Boat Race, as well as major international events like the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games and the FIFA World Cup. A Sunday edition, simply named Sunday Grandstand, launched in 1981 and ran on BBC Two, from time to time including the Ski Sunday section. Despite the impression given by a number of TV nostalgia websites, the show's iconic theme tune, composed especially for the programme by Keith Mansfield, was not the original theme tune, only being first heard on 11 October 1975. The original tune was "News Scoop" by Len Stevens, which was used until 1971 and can be heard in the Cult TV section of the BBC's own website. From 1971 to 1975, another, little-remembered tune was used. A re-recorded version of the theme was also introduced in 1999, but complaints caused it to be quickly reverted back to the original. [1] In the late afternoon, with many Football League and Scottish Football League matches approaching full-time, the famous Final Score section would come on. This covered not only the results from all the matches, but also gave the results of the football pools. Perhaps the section's most famous feature was the Teleprinter, a digital device at the bottom of the screen which printed out the results as they came through, with the characters in each result appearing one by one. In its final few years, the show was rarely hosted from a studio and as such there was no longer a main presenter. The show tended to be broadcast from wherever the main feature that day was taking place, and the host would be associated with that feature - for example, if it was snooker then Hazel Irvine would host, if it was racing or rugby legaue then it would be Clare Balding, and if it was rugby union it would be John Inverdale. On 24 April 2006, the BBC announced that Grandstand would be gradually phased out after nearly half a century, due to the increasing use of interactive services and the need to meet the challenges of the digital, on-demand world. This had been hinted by the dropping of the "Grandstand" title from the BBC's coverage of the major international sporting events, like the World Cup as well as that year's Winter Olympics and Commonwealth Games. It was originally intended that the show's cancellation would take place in 2009; however, with little or no notice, this was brought forward to 28 January 2007. The final Saturday edition of Grandstand was broadcast on 27 January 2007, and the last edition of all after 48 years was broadcast the following day, 28 January 2007, a short tribute to the history of the show forming its final feature. Sport still features prominently on the BBC's programme schedules on Saturday afternoon as well as on BBC Red Button, the interactive service available on digital television. 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
BBC Television - Interlude Film - The River aptsarchive 2009-09-05 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. 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 futureLight Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100433Artist: http://incompetech.com
BBC Television - Interlude Film - Flirtation Waltz aptsarchive 2009-09-05 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. 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 futureLight Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100433Artist: http://incompetech.com
BBC Television Service - Meryl OKeeffe- In-vision Announcer aptsarchive 2009-09-04 | One of the original Southern TV announcers from 1958 to 1960. Meryl was a BBC TV in-vision announcer from 1960 to 1965. Regional presenter BBC TV's 'Come Dancing', 1963 - 1965; BBC Radio External Services/World Service announcer since 1974. Meryl re-appeared in November 1986 as in-vision announcer on BBC Two to celebrate TV50, the 50th anniversary of BBC Television. TV50 footage transmitted: 3rd November 1986. This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
BBC Television - Interlude Film - The Windmill aptsarchive 2009-05-11 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. Filmed at Packenham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The music used for this Interlude film is as follows: Pastoral Montage (Fagan) - - Queens Hall Light Orch (Chappell C 324). 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
BBC Television - Interlude Film - The Weir aptsarchive 2009-05-11 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. 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
BBC Television - Interlude Film - The Kitten aptsarchive 2009-05-11 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. The kitten's name was Snowy and he was owned by Mr Martin of Barnet, Herts. The Supervising film editor for this Interlude Film was Bob Verrall. The music used in this Interlude Film is as follows: Prunella (Leslie Bridgewater) - - LPromO-Collins (Paxton PR 423) 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
BBC Television - Interlude Film - Spinning Wheel aptsarchive 2009-05-11 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. This is one of the better known BBC Interlude Films, shown during the 1950s. Music used in the Interlude Film is as follows: 1. Table Talk (Dolf van der Linden) - - Metropole Orch-Linden (Paxton PR 586) 2. Mews in Mayfair (Vivian Ellis) - - QHLO-Torch (Chappell C 346) 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
BBC Television - Interlude Film - Palm Beach, Jamaica aptsarchive 2009-05-11 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. This particluar Interlude Film was from the later years (circa 1960's). 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
BBC Televison - Interlude Film - Potters Wheel aptsarchive 2009-05-11 | Interlude films were used to "fill-in" gaps in the television schedule, either when there was a technical breakdown (valve technology was prone to breakdown frequently), or, in the early days of post-war television, to allow changes between studios. The most famous Interlude Film of them all "The Potter's Wheel". The potter, who's hands we see, was George Aubertin. Two pieces of music were used for this interlude film: 1. The Young Ballerina (Charles Williams) - - QHLO-Williams (Chappell C 400) 2. Sadlers Wells (Haydn Wood) - - QHLO-Sidney Torch (Chappell C 345) 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
Coronation 1937 - George VI & Queen Elizabeth - 12th May 1937 - BBC Television Service aptsarchive 2009-04-15 | An amateur enthusiast actually made this home telerecording of the BBC Television Service coverage of the Coronation of King George VI in May 1937. The BBC Television Service had been running only since the previous November, and they had no method of recording the picture from the television screen. Mr J E Davies set up his 16mm cine camera to film the images from the television screen. He was an employee of the Marconi Company (occupation unknown), in 1937, and by 1953 was the Manager of the Publicity Division of The Marconi International Marine Communication Company. Mr Davies lent his home cine film to the BBC for inclusion in "All Our Yesterdays - The Passing Show", transmitted on 1st & 8th June 1953, to celebrate the past 100 years of the Monarchy and the impending Coronation of Princess Elizabeth, who's Coronation was on the following day. This recording only exists due to the fact that "The Passing Show" was recorded by the 35mm telerecording method then used by the BBC. This 24 seconds clip shows some of the procession as seen on the screen of a television reciever. Mr Davies' camera was a 16mm Moviekon at f. 1.5. Synchronisation was difficult, as the camera had no frame speed to match that of the television picture. The amount of exposure would have been insufficient though, so Mr Davies compromised and used the frame speed setting on his camera, hoping that it would run into approximate synchronisation as well as giving better exposure. The results were good, although he felt that with the synchronisation and exposure difficulties the film does not do full justice to the quality of television in 1937. And, he recalled, the weather, dull and showery, must have been a handicap to the television cameras. Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8tbUyeE2Kk which is the official film, made by the BBC Film Unit, of the television coverage of the 1937 Coronation. 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
Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders aptsarchive 2008-08-30 | Due to this performance on television Felix Mendelssohn was banned by Stoll Moss from appearing in any of their theatre's for 3 months. Transmission: 12th June 1946 This film footage is from the Desmond Campbell 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
Les Ballets Negres aptsarchive 2008-08-30 | The English, and world renowned, black ballet company first performed on BBC Television in June 1946, when they performed two ballets "They Came" and "Market Day".Transmission: 24th June 1946 (8.30 -- 9.03 pm)This film footage is from the Desmond Campbell 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
Knife Throwing Denvers aptsarchive 2008-08-30 | The Knife Throwing Denvers were the first "circus style" act to appear on the newly formed BBC Television Service in 1936. The audio track added to this film has been taken from a sound recording of the Denvers 1936 performance. The film is believed to be of their first post-war television appearance in 1946. This film footage is from the Desmond Campbell 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
RadiOlympia - September 1938 aptsarchive 2008-08-30 | The National Radio Exhibition held at Olympia in London - hence the name "RadiOlympia". Television was first promoted at this exhibition in 1936 (to help launch the new public service). By 1938 television was the major attraction at the exhibition. This short clip, filmed on 3rd September 1938, gives an insight into the television section of the exhibition and features the following: OUTSIDE VIEW OF THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION HALL - with RadiOlympia signage. "IN THE GARDEN" - featuring the television gardener Mr Middleton & television announcer Elizabeth Cowell "QUEUE FOR A SONG" - featuring Douglas Byng, Graham Payn, Joyce Winn, Queenie Leonard, Edward Cooper, Diana Chase & Jackie Billings. "JACK HYLTON AND HIS BAND" - featuring Bruce Trent, Peggy Dell, June Malo, The Henderson Twins, Freddie Schweitzer & Maureen Potter. "CABARET CRUISE" - featuring Walsh & Barker, Steve Geray & Magda Kun, The Five Lai Founs and the Dennis Van Thal Orchestra. This film footage is from the Desmond Campbell 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
Revealing Secrets - Series 1 - Episode 38 aptsarchive 2008-08-26 | Programme detailing the discovery by the Alexandra Palace Television Society Archivist, Simon Vaughan, of highly signigicant 16-mm cine films of the early days of British Television. These films show rehearsals & transmissions of actual programmes, from the late 1930's & early 1950's. Transmitted 18 May 2001 The indiviual items from this discovery appear as separate items on the Alexandra Palace Television Society YouTube channel. All films on this channel are from the Archive Collection held by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
Our House - Programme 2 aptsarchive 2008-08-26 | Reporter Tony Whitehouse takes you on a tour of a Derby townhouse - the home of interior design consultant's Paul Nowell and Richard Fearney. Produced by Central Television in 1996
