Our World - 1967

Our World was the first live, international, satellite television production, which was broadcast on 25 June 1967. 14 countries participated in the production that was transmitted to 24 countries with an estimated audience between 400 to 700 million people. The program was coordinated by the BBC in London. The Soviet Union and several other Eastern bloc countries pulled out a few days before the broadcast to protest the west's support for the Six-Day War.
The signal is carried by four satellites 23,000 miles above the earth, the Intelsat I (Early Bird) and The Intelsat III (Canary Bird) satellites over the Atlantic Ocean and NASA's ATS-1 and The Intelsat II (Lani Bird) satellites over the Pacific.
The program begins by looking at some of the earliest arrivals on our planet with babies born around the world starting with Japan at 4:04am, then Denmark one hour before sunset at 8:06pm, next its 1:06pm in Mexico City, then 3,000 miles to the north at Edmonton in Canada where a Cree Indian baby is born, only four of some 1,800 born in the short time since the program began.
Its a summer evening in Paris, a winter morning in Melbourne, just before lunch in Vancouver, and the middle of the afternoon in New York as we see what our neighbours are doing across the world.
Participating broadcasting organisations included:
-Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)
-Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF)
-British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC1)
-Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
-NHK (Japan)
-National Educational Television (NET) (USA)
-Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) (France)
-Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI)(Italy)
-Televisión Española (TVE) (Spain)
Some of the locations included:
-Abbey Road Studios, London, UK (Beatles' segment)
-Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
-Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
-Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
-Tokyo, Japan
-Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Owing to language issues for Australians, interpreters translated the foreign commentaries for Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) announcers to provide an English voice-over where necessary. The ABC announcing team consisted of James Dibble, Margaret Throsby, John West and David Hawkes.
The program takes us from country to country including a pass through Italy where Franco Zeffirelli is on location for Romeo and Juliet, to the Abbey Road Studios in London and the Beatles making their recording of 'All You Need Is Love', to close the broadcast.
Here is the first 30 minutes of this historic and pioneering two hour television event.
Its worth noting that David Hawkes had a big impact on broadcasting training in Western Australia.
Though David began his broadcasting career in Queensland, he later became well known to WA viewers and listeners. David took over the 6WF (720) breakfast program from John Juan in 1974, presented concerts with the WA Symphony Orchestra, recitals for ABC Classic FM, hosted the program "Jazz on the Terrace" and provided commentary for countless outside broadcasts: Royal visits, Anzac Day, and other special occasions.
For ABC television in WA, David read the news, fronted the games show "Fair Go!", co-hosted the cooking program "Two for the Pot", presented concert telecasts from the Perth Concert Hall, was anchor for the current affairs show "State Wide", and link for many election night Tally room specials.
David was also responsible for setting up the department of Media Performance, at the WA academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), in Edith Cowan University. WAAPA was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition comparable to the highest calibre of national and international training benchmarks to be able to meet industry needs around the globe.
Former ABC announcers filled the position of Head of WAAPA Broadcasting on all occasions to date.
David Hawkes was the first Head of WAAPA Broadcasting.
Anne Conti was the second Head of WAAPA Broadcasting.
Earl Reeve was the third Head of WAAPA Broadcasting.
Murray Jennings was the fourth Head of WAAPA Broadcasting 1995-2005.
Whilst Peter Holland is the fifth and current Head of WAAPA Broadcasting.
The school is located in the suburb of Mount Lawley, Perth, Western Australia. It is regarded as one of Australia's leading performance training institutions.
WAAPA also teaches acting, music theatre, directing, dance, jazz and contemporary music, classical music, arts management, production, design, as well as broadcasting.

[@RolandOrre]

This is not the full program I saw in 1967. It's missing the essential performance of The Beatles, which changed my life: Love, love, love Love, love, love Love, love, love There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game It's easy Nothing you can make that can't be made No one you can save that can't be saved Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time It's easy All you need is love, all you need is love All you need is love, love, love is all you need All you need is love All you need is love, love, love is all you need There's nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy All you need is love, all you need is love All you need is love, love, love is all you need All you need is love (All together now) All you need is love (Everybody) All you need is love, love, love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Love is all you need Yesterday Oh yeah (She love you, yeah, yeah, yeah) (She love you, yeah, yeah, yeah) vimeo.com/214047758 Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

[@RodMcNeilTV]

Great to hear Jim Dibble in his usual great form hosting this challenging international TV first. James is now long deceased but his stylish presentation is long remembered.

[@matthatter2849]

The only Beatles you're gonna find in this upload (since it's only the first 30 minutes) is at 12:21. Their famous footage was broadcast at about 75 minutes in.

[@MichaelSalmons64]

From a time when we still dared to dream.

[@CMan-rt9in]

I watched this broadcast live here in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Will always remember it.

[@Kevin-ro1fo]

The first ever live broadcast around the world "🌍 ✌" Peace and love "💓" in every corner of the globe "👍" Good morning WHOLE WORLD "💎"

[@jailedcat3829]

WTF!!! no Beatles???

[@altfactor]

I believe that portions of this program were broadcast in color. There was not yet a stationary TV broadcast satellite over the Indian Ocean in 1967, but almost every country with TV could be linked with satellites over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

[@cosmonautbilly]

YEARS WATING FOR THIS. THANKS

[@guestandsons]

Amazing for its day. Thanks for posting.

[@josephproskauer8210]

Machine as poet: A satellite photograph announced as "the earth itself" is transcribed for closed captioning as "the inner third stone . . . " (19:55)

[@gonzaloiturriaga94]

I'm just looking for The Beatles footage.

[@daluneelectric6762]

yeah there's meant to be them singing all you need is love at the end I think to close the show???

[@ninga1769]

youre an amazing human, thanks for the link

[@ronnyrazor6351]

No ,but thanks, it's a part of history it ticks me off that they blocked it, I hoped that you enjoyed it.

[@rebeccabooth-fox9645]

Thanks, Ronny! That's what I was here for too!

[@ronnyrazor6351]

You're welcome if your on Google plus You can take it from me

[@yukkuri9990]

素晴らしいね！！！生で見たかったが生まれてない・・・

[@beaksofeagles]

James Dibble! Legend.

[@edwardbranca54]

This telecast was the first world wide web.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I get the impression they used one of KZbin's filters to do that for whatever reason, I can see the picture constantly moving about as if it's trying to keep in alignment with what's on the screen.

[@hurrikhan2347]

50 years ago today!

[@watvhistory]

Thank you for that... much appreciated. Shall check it out.

[@jaworskij]

I turned 1 yo. June 23, 1967. I don' remember seeing this show. Maybe I did. I do very faintly remember all the NASA coverage of the Apollo launches of the time.

[@ygorbandeira762]

Essa aí foi a primeira exibição de programa "Ao vivo" mundialmente, e com a participação dos Beatles, banda que mudou a cara do rock nessa época, tocando "All you need is love" em um pool de 26 emissoras do mundo. Antes foram exibidos programas ao vivo locais, como as inaugurações das TVs tupi, record, globo e Band nos anos 50 e 60 (embora o SBT diz ser a primeira TV do mundo a transmitir sua estreia ao vivo, as outras emissoras utilizaram esse recurso em suas estreias), e apesar disso os jogos de futebol ainda eram transmitidos "Gravados" (a transmissão mundial do futebol ao vivo começou na copa do mundo 1970). Outras transmissões mundiais desses 50 anos de broadcast ao vivo foram as coberturas de copas do mundo, de ataques terroristas (como o de 11/09/2001 nos EUA), inaugurações de parques da Disney (como a Disney de paris em 1992) e até mesmo especiais de fim de ano (como o programa 2000 today, exibido por um pool de mais de 30 países, sendo a record a representante do brasil no pool).

[@raimundobarbado1147]

Quite a feat or historical milestone.

[@RodMcNeilTV]

I remember the occasion well

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

Yea, I noticed that too, like that auto-image stabilization processing YT now has available, personally I find it quite annoying to look at. I wonder why they would use such on that video...

[@will9605]

I too was looking for the Beatles but I was glad to see Vancouver was part of this broadcast. As a Vancouver resident I didn't know that. Cool to see Kits Beach in 1967! Does anyone know where I can find the rest of this program?

[@watvhistory]

We are trying to locate the full program... and hopefully the copyright owner will allow us to upload it.

[@AllAmericanGuyExpert]

Still waiting.... 10 years later!

[@cosmonautbilly]

World TV should make a 2012 version of that

[@brock985]

pancho93 2017 for 50th anniversary ✌✌

[@sim61642]

The Beatles sing the at the credits , the broadcast was about 2.5 hours long , this is probably just the 1st quarter .

[@beatlesaroma]

Thank you. Maybe you know if it can be buy it (dvd or other media)?

[@franciscocuadrado7923]

Does anyone know where can I find a spanish subtitle track for this video? I'm afraid that the students won't pay the necessary attention to the original version.

[@zyawotha]

And today we can send live video around the world with our iphones. technology is great

[@josephproskauer8210]

A mixed blessing, when "Distance ceases almost to have meaning"? Comparing experiences of makers and viewers of this program with those of earlier, slower travellers (like Magellan, Eckener, and even Gagarin) would be worthwhile. Technology distances us from the richness of reality, even as it brings us closer. Wonderful as our satellites, screens, and speakers may be, it requires redoubled awareness to discern and surmount their invisible impediments. Otherwise, the more pictures we take and share . . . the more skies, seas, stones or fields we survey . . . the more virtual 'streams' and 'tracks' we 'search' and 'follow,' and the more online posts we read and write . . . the less we truly sense, feel, know, and do. * At the opening, and on cameras throughtout the progam, note the logo: Vitruvian Man in (crucified by?) the new media culture. There is more than a hint of cultural paternalism (and what Owen Barfield called "chronological snobbery"). There are also poetic touches: the last stop in the introductory tour of the Old World is the Gulf of Cadiz (near Gibraltar) -- the port of departure for Magellan's circumnavigation (and for two of Columbus' Atlantic crossings).

[@josephproskauer8210]

* From Stephen Talbot (introducing his Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines -- more at natureinstitute.org/pub/ic/ic17/devices.htm ): The danger . . . is . . . that we will descend to the level of the computational devices we have engineered . . . reducing ourselves to automatons. . . There is . . . hope . . . because our participation . . . can be a long way from machine-like. . . This is . . . inner work. It requires a . . . spirit of mischief and trickery from us, a willingness to fashion creative inner “devices” . . . opposite the inner automatisms now resonating . . . with the external machinery of our lives. These liberating devices . . . arise only where we can recollect ourselves, find inner quiet . . . and discover the center from which . . . we can weave the harmonious tapestry of an entire life. . . . To reclaim our Selves in this way means transforming the actor, and not merely the “social machinery” . . . in every human endeavor. . . . However nearly miraculous the technology we have . . . the human spirit from which it stems is . . . the real miracle . . .

[@josephproskauer8210]

* From Wendell Berry ("How to Be a Poet" -- two more wise and wonderful verses at www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/41087/how-to-be-a-poet ): Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensioned life; stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in. There are no unsacred places; There are only sacred places And desecrated places.

[@cinepobre]

Aquel día debió ser sobrecogedor. Tecnología de vanguardia que hoy nos parece hasta arcaica. Excelente documento, pero en la descripción faltó mencionar la participación de Telesistema mexicano.

[@octaviocontreras8092]

Ni tanto, lo que causo fue curiosidad....

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

I just found out that KZbin user "aptsarchive" has the full 1 hr 37 min copy of this show (at watch?v=aQsA6TNwWB8), but the quality is not as good and the frame seems to be a bit cropped inward. Hopefully you'll find a full copy that doesn't have these issues....

[@LeonelLAURE]

It's not there anymore.

[@ifyoueverfind78]

yeah , is this the one where the bealtes play all u need is love?

[@momoiunder17]

10:00 楽曲のタイトルが気になる。とても荘厳なイメージで好きです！

[@AthenaNova1]

ジョルジュ・ドルリュー - 私たちの世界のテーマ Georges Delerue - Our World Theme

[@beatlesaroma]

Hi, where can i found the entire program (if it exists?). Thank you!

[@ryanbaker0]

I Beatles a Roma Just uploaded on my channel

[@adamkincaid1234]

Where is Beatles band?

[@Bandidaciega14]

15:59 Mexico!))))

[@gustavomartinez8759]

Gracias ! Por compartir.

[@mistersmith1883]

Where's Maria callas?

[@jeffspc88mx]

From the USA: We say "Awesome".

[@ronnyrazor6351]

This video contains content from Apple Corps Ltd, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.

[@ronnyrazor6351]

Ya I agree I'm stopping to promote Beatle music or any other band from Apple or EMI .I do have it but it's too large too send to anyone.

[@ronnyrazor6351]

Nilton Anschau Júnior1 week agovimeo.com/176129699

[@dash0beat]

where are the beatles?

[@hughsturrock5891]

vimeo.com/214713412

[@watvhistory]

Will continue to research the matter and report at watvhistory d-o-t com

[@pechngam1999]

Do you have a complete show?

[@barryshostakovitch]

FWIW, I saw the complete (2hr) show, in perfect (b&w) quality, at the BFI in London in December 2014. It was found in a Norwegian TV archive.

[@pechngam1999]

Do you have a link?

[@zilch77]

Do you have a link or location of this video. This year is the 50th anniversary and would like to see it.

[@ryanbaker0]

Ciro Morales Uploaded To My Channel

[@publicserviceannouncement1418]

LOGIE KNEW #AustralianRules

[@ryanbaker0]

Just uploaded the complete video on my channel

[@esdelangelf]

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[@edwardbranca54]

Most of these countries have government funded healthcare and the babies and their mothers shown in this telecast seem to be getting good care. Maybe Republican politicians are lying to us when they say that government funded healthcare is bad.

[@TonyLovell]

The world seems pretty boring without the Beatles

[@danielcruz8347]

Terrestrial Man exhibits technology to Universe. To serve MAN. Where is Ms Olivia Hussey..

[@ronnyrazor6351]

Beatles gone Apple Rotten to the Core says No Buy them