Here's Looking At You! - the first television programme from Alexandra Palace - took the air on August 26, 1936, and the first artist to appear on the screens was Helen McKay.
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@APotatoWT8 ай бұрын
How far we've come in 87 years is amazing
@yasminx167 жыл бұрын
This sends shivers down my spine. Just incredible.
@Hvghhgg93918 күн бұрын
It’s not that deep
@user-ky6vw5up9m5 жыл бұрын
This was the start of the world’s first continuous high-definition (405 lines) television service with regular programming and available to anyone who purchased a TV set. Before then, tv broadcasts were experimental, demonstrations, tests, confined to select audiences etc
@stoyanfurdzhev2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad that there is a drum set on one of the first televised transmissions in Europe.
@justanotheryoutubechannel5 жыл бұрын
Well, this was the first Marconi-EMI program. The mechanical version of this happened a week earlier.
@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc6 жыл бұрын
Awesome bit of history. Thanks for the upload.
@scottpeacock54926 жыл бұрын
How can two people dislike this clip is beyond me.
@manzoorahmed91112 жыл бұрын
jealous
@TheSmart-CasualGamer Жыл бұрын
Annoyance that they weren't there to see it at the time?
@Sebastian16753 Жыл бұрын
Because of no diversity!😭
@VermyScrubs3 ай бұрын
Simple, many people view it as the start of a “propaganda network”.
@test-ru2jo3 жыл бұрын
I can use this video with subtitles in it! What an good idea!
@JohnKobaRuddy Жыл бұрын
Mad to see many of the techniques haven't changed much
@davidlatham8630Ай бұрын
Wow. Her RP accent is so sharp one could slice bread with it.
@mikemorgan78933 жыл бұрын
It’s actually a remake made for cinema newsreels shortley after the actual broadcast
@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans76482 жыл бұрын
If so then this is cinema quality but not a representation of TV fidelity.
@WTFBOOMDOOM4 жыл бұрын
This is several years before WWII. We tend to think of the pre-WWII era as something that happened in the pre-modern times, but look at this video, this is television. Of course there are plenty of movies from decades earlier, but they are fiction so they already feel "unreal" and therefore "ancient". Newsreels were viewed by small groups of people and not in real time. Modern real-time electronic entertainment for the masses, several years before the horrors of the "historic" WWII (which I'm sure young kids think happened in another slice of the space-time continuum, at least that's how it felt to me when I was pretty young, not that I knew about the space-time continuum (not that I know all that much about it now))...
@WedgePee4 жыл бұрын
The MASSES?! More like the top 5%, if that! Each set cost close to £100! That was over six months' wages for the average person at the time.
@andyfidler50222 жыл бұрын
@@WedgePee yup...tv viewership before the war was in the thousands...and all of them in London. Masses it is not!
@arrow4749 Жыл бұрын
@@WedgePee yh my nan didnt get a tv until 1957 lol
@messystudios8505 Жыл бұрын
@@andyfidler5022 it wasnt even the 1000s. The estimate for viewership of the first tv broadcast was only 400. Tbf that was also coz the signal only reached about 30 miles out. not just the price of the sets.
@raptorfromthe6ix83311 ай бұрын
Which is funny considering that tons of celebrities such as bob hope Mickey Rooney Shirley temple and Olivia de haviland at their height during the 30s
@sheilatagg70728 жыл бұрын
Amazing.
@dinomemlika76294 жыл бұрын
This historic 1936 is scary.
@sarpsarp89872 жыл бұрын
What is scary?
@manzoorahmed91112 жыл бұрын
@@sarpsarp8987 maybe that person meant fantastic or awesome.
@tadc345fan9 ай бұрын
Stop saying the word "scary"
@sheilatagg2699 Жыл бұрын
Just think how exciting that would be to see the very first programme broadcast?
@gavinmillar7519 Жыл бұрын
That would be amazing
@wulfrunian10 ай бұрын
It wasn’t though. The first experimental broadcast was in 1929, seven years earlier. The BBC also broadcast on the 30 line system between 1932 and 1935.
@scumfvckpekaboi5 жыл бұрын
OMG this is so cool
@markbenjamin1703 Жыл бұрын
There's probably no one alive now, who saw this broadcast live
@fastertrackcreative8 ай бұрын
This was 87 years ago so it's not that long ago. My grandpa's 90 my grandma is 88 so it is possible though they probably wouldn't remember it. Nobody involved in _making_ it for sure though.
@retrocysper37094 жыл бұрын
0:01 oh she looks pretty..... what's her name???. 0:15 oh sad she walked away..... 0:19 oh no thanks I gonna go away.
@markbenjamin17032 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth Cowell is the presenter at the start
@paulbennell3313 Жыл бұрын
@@markbenjamin1703 She was gorgeous!
@markbenjamin1703 Жыл бұрын
@@paulbennell3313 it's unfortunate that her only appearances were pre-war, she left the BBC and never returned post-war due to marry a Scottish Laird
@paulbennell3313 Жыл бұрын
@@markbenjamin1703 Lucky Scottish Laird I say!
@justincase22812 жыл бұрын
Was this a film of a TV screen or is this a film of the program that was broadcast? Looks too clear to be television in 1936. But it is incredible regardless.
@messystudios8505 Жыл бұрын
it was a film. they didnt actually have videotape in those days. so everything went out live. They just filmed important programmes like this or stuff filmed outside
@justincase2281 Жыл бұрын
@@messystudios8505 There was television in the 30s and I was wondering if it was filmed from a TV broadcast of some sort right in front of the screen. But yeah, good point. No video back in that era. There was first "Kinescope", in the late 40s and early 50s, then later video. Cheers.👍
@messystudios8505 Жыл бұрын
@@justincase2281 It would have been stupidly expensive for someone to put a film camera in front of a tv and it would come out very poor quality.
@justincase2281 Жыл бұрын
@@messystudios8505 Stupidly expensive? Not really. Now go away.
@messystudios8505 Жыл бұрын
@@justincase2281 Why are u suddenly being an asshole? Do u know how much a film camera costs nowadays? let alone in the 1930s!! The film reel alone would cost £1000 in todays money. No tv viewer would spend £10,000s to record a programme. It was pretty normal for the BBC to record important programmes onto film and archive them. Thats how we have the entirety of the coronation of Elizabeth II and George VI and other important events.
@swayze360210 ай бұрын
Wow ❤
@syedalamgir58383 ай бұрын
Thanks BBC
@bnelso2833 Жыл бұрын
Very nice.
@BloodMoonASMR2 жыл бұрын
0:19 Look at those paper-thin 20s flapper brows lol
@BloodMoonASMR2 жыл бұрын
It's like Christina Aguilera
@filippalambert31217 жыл бұрын
Hi! Is it okey if I use this video for a school project? Thank you from sweden!
@melontests-testeverything25897 жыл бұрын
filippa lambert Yes it is.
@galaxy12342 жыл бұрын
yyes nobody is going to claim copyright for yor school project
@rongendron8705 Жыл бұрын
Was this a filmed version of the first t.v. program or were we actually seeing the image as the first television viewers saw it?
@gavinmillar7519 Жыл бұрын
I think this would have gone out live but filmed for posterity maybe?
@davba2 Жыл бұрын
This was a reconstruction staged for newsreel cameras.
@adityadubey52048 жыл бұрын
wow
@diegoximenes80117 ай бұрын
😮😮😮EXCITING
@Josh-rh6bs8 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know if the full version is anywhere ?
@jsl151850b6 жыл бұрын
Hardly any of the show exists. Here's a few seconds more at 40:40 kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2K3o4WjeZZ6eMU Oops....Blocked in the USA due to copyright claims from the BBC. {What? No statute of limitations?}
@MaSoNGaMeR1155 жыл бұрын
@@jsl151850b my god the bbc actually blocked it on copyright grounds can you believe that?
@jsl151850b5 жыл бұрын
@@MaSoNGaMeR115 Here's 'Magic Rays of Light'. See 1:00. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6bIe6aHprKfY6M There was a recreation of opening night: The Fools on the Hill (1986 TV Movie) 'Here's Looking At You'. See 40:25 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHTXmp2QdrZ9e7s
@MaSoNGaMeR1155 жыл бұрын
@@jsl151850b thanks
@G6JPG2 жыл бұрын
It's not the same song, but kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4PTl5ihYqtriNk A fuller version of this - which they freely admit is partly reconstructed - is at kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4DahHZ5raeIrKM
@garyfrancis61936 ай бұрын
First BBC programme or first BBC TV program?
@AlexanderSchmidt-jz5uf8 ай бұрын
I didn't know 1930s ads would make me feel like I'm on LSD
@leeorbell3490 Жыл бұрын
Elizabeth cowel is the TV announcer
@Slawek3615 жыл бұрын
Who is that woman in beginning?
@BIGTINGA4 жыл бұрын
Helen McKay
@G6JPG2 жыл бұрын
@@BIGTINGA I think he was asking about the announcer (who was Elizabeth Cowell).
@pavannair64694 жыл бұрын
This is better than most of the shows they have on tv now. And I'm 16
@lilfridge5652 Жыл бұрын
What? You saw 30 seconds of it
@JohnKobaRuddy Жыл бұрын
@@lilfridge5652 exactly. What a dumb comment from the OP
@messystudios8505 Жыл бұрын
@@JohnKobaRuddy i mean tbf...have u seen love island?
@kaysmith8992 Жыл бұрын
Did anyone else think TV only began in the 1950s with the Coronation? The woman's fashion style here really makes it seem so old.
@mohank60357 жыл бұрын
Looks like a horror movie
@Mike89816 жыл бұрын
lol!!!
@kardoameen38645 жыл бұрын
I thought exactly the same! conjuring sort of movies
@sarpsarp89872 жыл бұрын
Nope it doesn't.
@pitiantifriz10 ай бұрын
Rule 1 of JC the hyenas laws of sp00py Old thing = Scary
@rogoffical234810 ай бұрын
actualy is 8mm convert into tapes and into tv television bbc. actualy is high definition of this video.
@ObjectFiller8 ай бұрын
0:19 Mom: Take Out The Trash me: Dad's Looking At You From assholes to brooms
@ronaldwilliamson79636 жыл бұрын
In those days, they evidently used heavy makeup to get a good broadcast picture.
@JasmineSurrealVideos3 жыл бұрын
Yes, they had to because black and white film drains tones and shades from the skin, not just colour, so in films like say Chaplins and Keatons they used accentuated eye and mouth make up, and a lot of powder to compensate.
@McShave3 жыл бұрын
Yeah heavy makeup was a thing for the black and white times. Later on they discovered green makeup looked better as red stuff showed up more like a black. There are colour photographs out there of film recordings that show actors with green faces. Bizarre.
@G6JPG2 жыл бұрын
Especially for the earlier 30-line transmissions!
@l_j_c_53977 жыл бұрын
What month and date ?
@G6JPG2 жыл бұрын
Details in the comments to kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4DahHZ5raeIrKM
@alkansfunadventures2 ай бұрын
26-27th August 1936
@TRTninuzumlukeki8 ай бұрын
Wrgb tv:"Am I a joke to you?"
@Nabeelboragrag13 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@videogyandentistcare47626 ай бұрын
BBC 1936
@peterdilworth31102 жыл бұрын
@G6JPG2 жыл бұрын
Why has it funny corners? I don't think tubes of the time were that shape.
@katherinelikesstuffАй бұрын
still better than mrs brown's boys
@jasonwood3377 Жыл бұрын
Bet it was a repeat
@Galaxy-f5uАй бұрын
It's so OID
@Jack-bs6zb Жыл бұрын
Good looking women!
@chloedevereaux18012 жыл бұрын
damn tv, you scary.......
@walkingTVwithadog2 жыл бұрын
TV at it's best. No smut,porn, nudity,handj*bs,profanity or satire poking fun at authority. Broadcasting Executives of 2022: please take note!
@JohnKobaRuddy Жыл бұрын
Poking fun at authority upsets you? The boots in your town must be gleaming.
@millsyinnz Жыл бұрын
Im guessing you are an admireer of the Taliban's TV service then.
@MrTantrums0072 жыл бұрын
The 1930s was the last decade that Britain was truly British before WW2 and all the mass immigration that followed WW2.
@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde83732 жыл бұрын
Racist!
@gel25032 жыл бұрын
What a racist yob
@kaysmith8992 Жыл бұрын
Forget immigration, it was really the Yanks who destroyed Britishness after WW2. Immigrants from elsewhere would just have copied British culture if it hadn't been for American mass media.
@rongendron8705 Жыл бұрын
I agree!
@JohnKobaRuddy Жыл бұрын
You all asked for it. And don't deny it. Every vote for the bourgeoisie is a vote against yourself.
@reltanahkusir7 жыл бұрын
Creepy
@DavidEsparza21437 жыл бұрын
Sael what's creepier is this was before WW2 and beside the great depression
@chasb45156 жыл бұрын
Sael very
@jorisbonson3862 жыл бұрын
Ruubbish! What's on the other side?
@emeraldhxh87936 жыл бұрын
Scary
@G6JPG2 жыл бұрын
Why? (I find it quaint and charming.)
@tunahuna48174 жыл бұрын
Unfortunatly not the last!!..........
@m5621429 күн бұрын
I don't think BBC will end until 2100
@urinater3 жыл бұрын
Where is the diversity?
@BloodMoonASMR2 жыл бұрын
It's 1936, 2 years before WWII tho
@fredbloggs63422 жыл бұрын
Diversity is a curse of the modern era. This was from a much better time when Britain was for the British, not immigrants claiming British status.
@Fleegled11 ай бұрын
i was there... good times⏲. the woman singing is my bbg 😚😚😍😍🥰🥰 we were just testing the brand new BBC type A microphone the audio quality is lowkey fire 🤑🤑🤑 after the screening we loved being on the brand new television📺 technology and we are hoping to be on many more broadcasts🤟🤟🤟