Tv Comes To Alexandra Palace (1938)

London.
Several shots around the new experimental television studio. A girl is filmed to demonstrate cameras and TV at work. Various shots showing erecting the television aerial at Alexandra Palace, London. Aerial goes high up on the top of the tower. Various shots inside studios, staff restaurant, director in his office, technicians at work, cameramen, make up, control room, etc.
(35 mm Pos.)
Cataloguer's note - Year not found in the old record although the item suggests that it is 1938 when the first public television recording takes place.
FILM ID:3338.03
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[@tararuaman]

I'm glad those men are wearing cloth caps for safety, I wouldn't want to see one of those girders falling onto there heads .

[@jourwalis-8875]

Why is this film cut, just where the exitement begins!? Very annoying! And I think the beginning of the film is missing to.... Could you please load up the complete film.

[@reviewgodusa9613]

Sorry it's missing. Now get lost

[@RyanGonTV]

@@reviewgodusa9613 I don’t think you understand that this is television history, if this didn’t happen. Television probably wouldn’t have caught on as it has.

[@jorgelewis6568]

The film is called Television comes to london. The entire film is available on youtube but in quite low quality.

[@Poppa]

@@reviewgodusa9613 wtf is your problem

[@CarltonYouTube]

@@reviewgodusa9613 rude alert

[@WondrousEarth]

The radio tower as shown completed at 4:12 is as a piece of art. Incredible those early days of television, this growing toward have TV become a part of everyday life within the next decade.

[@michaelberg9656]

It looked much better then with all the aerials. Now it's a bit bare at the top.

[@michaelberg9656]

Wonderful! I lived about as close as you could get to the Ally Pally in the fifties. Wonderful place for a boy to grow up.

[@jdm65]

A new world indeed. Super.

[@chibikopandanobum5370]

It was in 1936, not 1938!

[@SpongeDan]

Yes, as BBC One (then known as BBC TV Service) opened in 1936.

[@Cheeseburgerandfries2006]

@@SpongeDan and closed in 1939 due to world war ll and reopened in 1946

[@SpongeDan]

@@Cheeseburgerandfries2006 yep

[@jorgelewis6568]

@@SpongeDan The BBC Television Service is a much more elegant name than BBC One in my opinion

[@saysitallrealy791]

love to look at that building from edmonton

[@MrMakeDo]

Cut too short 😢

[@barryobrien7935]

Too bad they didn’t have a Mt. Lee or Mt. Wilson for transmitting tower.