75 Years of BBC TV - History of the BBC
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc At 3pm on 2 November 1936 the BBC began the world's first regular hi-definition television service, from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace in North London. As part of this, two different technical systems were being tested on alternate weeks for six months: John Logie Baird's mechanical system producing pictures of 240 lines, and the EMI-Marconi electronic system, which produced images of 405 lines. On the toss of a coin, Baird's system inaugurated the service, followed by EMI-Marconi's. The latter was to prove the winning system.
The formal opening ceremony was followed by a Movietone newsreel and then a variety show, featuring Adele Dixon and the BBC Television Orchestra. A short documentary, Television Comes to London, revealed the preparations leading up to the launch. In all, the service was on the air for two hours on its first day.
Watch a selection of clips from programmes which all came from Alexandra Palace, when the BBC was there, 1936-1981.
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My grandad was on the first broadcast playing the clarinet while my nan was in the audience, this holds such a special memory for my family :) X
Cool!
Nice!
Rio eep to top top top Play the song my detachable penis on UA-cam Play the song my data to peanuts on UA-cam Play steely dem do it a game Play study then do it again on UA-cam Play Steely Dan do it again on UA-cam Play still dance do it again on UA-cam Play a steely dam do it again on UA-cam What time is it What time is it What time is it What time is it K aura is K aura S What time is it Know what time is it Play some by The Beatles on UA-cam
🤯 NO WAY
Wow
6:16 This colour TV test is gorgeous!
what they're showing here is likely a modern transfer of the original film, not the actual broadcast footage
There are no actual pictures from the NTSC-based 405-line colour system - it's all film.
8:20 "So if anyone's not home yet, perhaps that accounts for it."
Gerald Priestland trying to put your mind at rest. :)
Interesting how obsessed so many people are with Doctor Who - I wonder if some of them even realise how little television from before the 1960s has survived. Doctor Who has one of the best survival rates of any tv series from the pre-1978 era, yet people still seem to care more about retrieving lost DW episodes than finding far rarer items from e.g. the 1950s or earlier. A little perspective is needed.
robicenco1 Because us Who fans are a determined bunch and won't take no for an answer, and besides the majority of material wasn't shown abroad whereas Doctor Who was shown in dozen of countries and the likelihood of recovery is far greater than many other programs. Yes! other programs are being looked for but just there is a lot less fans for them.
+MegaMrExplosive I know right. I'm a massive Whovian and check regularly for updates on the search
Yes agreed - don't get me wrong, I'm a Doctor Who fan and would love the remaining episodes to be rediscovered. But these days I place more value on old episodes of Top of the Pops and other programmes turning up.
robicenco1 Yes but we like Doctor Who because it's entertaining, not because it's a "collectors item".
also Doctor who's broadcast on bbc one was interrupted and hijacked for like a minute and forty something
Sometimes we need a updated version to celebrate 100 years of BBC.
The last 20 years are not worth celebrating, there has been a HUGE deterioration.
"Golfers in Action" shows just how lovingly Harry Enfield recreated the look and feel of these broadcasts in his Cholmondley-Warner sketches. :-)
Too right. I was on the lookout for the kind of footage that inspired those Harry Enfield sketches. Expecting Grayson to appear...its another world, that accent may well be incomprehensible in 100 years. I clipped out the interlude sequence with kittens playing with wool and ploughmen and use it as my screensaver now! I find the early footage all seems like parody but my parents find it very moving and evocative.
I was just thinking along the same lines.
And the casual superiority. The chap talks of captaining "the England Ryder Cup team". It's as if the rest of the UK just doesn't exist and any Scots, Welsh or Irish on the team are fortunate to be selected to play for Her Majesty's England.
Exactly what I thought!
@@CoherentChimp Seems to me when you last went into your local chippy you got them to put a family sized one on your shoulder. Just before you downed a dozen deep fried Mars bars.
If you wear headphones at full volume during the footage of BBC2's launch, you can hear the man who Gerald Priestland is talking to on the phone.
I have always wanted to say that, "This IS Alexandra Palace."
Andrew Lang YES SO WOULD I!!! Or "Cut to Palace"
At 8:00 ... Gerald Priestland, opening night of Beeb Two, surely a prototype Basil Fawlty on tranquillizers, coping live on air with a massive power failure in west London. What a fabulous performance, such sang froid, such elegance, such stiffness of upper lip! But, as he listens to the producer's voice on the other end of the chunky old phone, he picks up his Bic and writes something. What could it be? And why? Perhaps it's really his wife, calling from home to remind him to pick up twenty Players on the way home.
Dont panic Gerald this was the BBC after all
He is more like Cleese on Monty Python! "And now for something completely different..."
It was Sybil, reminding him to put up the moose's head and scrape the mould off the cheddar. 😀
Came across this video which I find very interesting .Gerald Priestland interviewed my late father live on TV in March 1954, which I gather was his first involvment with the new media .It concerned the salvage of a DeHaviland Comet airliner that crashed off the coast of Elba.Pye studio TV cameras were involved installed in deep sea casing with great success .I have an acetate disc recording of the interview which was specially commisioned by my mother.
And now BBC Television will be *80*!
Now 84
Soon it will be 85
0:17 1936
0:43 1936
0:49 1937-1938
RIP 1939-1946
1:33 1946
1:55 1946
2:48 1946
3:33 1950
4:40 1958
5:00 1956*
5:06 Logo 1956
6:03 1959 Colour testing
7:05 1964
9:11 1971
10:00 Present day
9:11 After BBC left the palace in 1969. It continue to produce Open University programmes until January 1981 when the University moved out to purpose-built premises north of London in Milton Keynes.
Very interesting. Part of the history of my life (well, some of it before I was born - I'm not quite that old). One thing that struck me, which I didn't remember from the time, is that the singers seem to be emulating an American accent, even when singing an English folk song. Well, perhaps the singer of 'Early One Morning' actually was American; but Petula Clark certainly wasn't.
in 2022 BBC will be 100
@Typiclelooroll Google it. BBC started on the 18th October 1922.
WOW
Early one morning used for the BBC Radio 4 theme (Which is the medley of the patriotic and folk song across the UK) in 1978 until 2006
Feels weird watching this but interesting at the same time
So glad I found this
Me too !!!
yes .. there is film footage featured in BBC Newsreels, but this is footage of how the live transmission looked..
1:55. OMFG!!!! NO FRICKEN WAY!!!! IT'S PET CLARK!!!! And after all these years, she's STILL got it!!!! :) :) :) :)
Harry Enfield did a very good takeoff of Leslie Mitchell and similar announcers with the Mr Grayson sketches.
The BBC has been around for a long time. It's really advanced and it all started when the BBC was established as the 'British Broadcasting Company' in 1922. The BBC was called it until 01/01/1927 when the 'British Broadcasting Corporation' was established. Everything was transferred over to the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC done some broadcasts and in 1936.. they launched the BBC Television Service. For the first few months they were using Baird's 240-line system but it was replaced by Marconi's 400-line system just a few months later. There also was a particular song on the BBC Television Service in 1936 called 'Television' . It was made to celebrate the new television service. Also before Children's BBC, there was For The Children and For The Very Young. Along with this, there was my favourite, Muffin the Mule. Then, in the late 1950s, they experimented with colour. Another major time for the BBC was in 1964, when BBC2 was launched. Unfortunately, there was a major power failure at Television Centre in West London 25 minutes before the scheduled programme first on BBC2 at 7:20PM. The first proper programme on BBC2 was Play School. Fun Fact: Play School was a children's programme. Then in 1985, it was major. The BBC launched the children's strand, Children's BBC (now CBBC). In 1997, there was a major re brand that swept the whole BBC. And of course, Children's BBC got re branded and was shortened to just 'CBBC'. BBC News 24 was launched as well. And there you have it. What will happen next on the BBC? Find out in the future.
It’s 2018 and I call the BBC the British Broadcasting Company because I’m British.
I was born in 1988 and i remember the saturday morning cartoons
EMI (405, not 400) didn't _replace_ Baird 240 - they started out alternating, to see which was better. There's no doubt the electronic system _was_ better, but I have always suspected viewers were minimally consulted: as has always been the case, those who would have to ditch equipment they'd paid for were given little consideration. (I suspect a Baird "Televisor" cost a lot less than an all-electronic set, as it contained far less electronics, which were expensive at the time. So I suspect there were more such viewers.)
And now we’re past 100 years!
The chap at 7:57 sounds like Basil Faulty when he answers the phone.
RIP Richard Baker.
5:49 Finally colors!
Early one morning is the traditional songs from England
It was used for Colour television test of the BBC in 1959
The BBC was once a well respected and much loved organisation in Britain. Now vast swathes of the public view the corporation with utter contempt. But Auntie just can't stop herself from spitting on Britain and the British.
No, just right wing nutters like you.
BBC became Corporate owned, thats what happened, thank you Capitalism free market.
I agree with you there.
Best Television Company ever!
Jourwalis - Yes indeed
Left wing social wreckers the BBC of will go down in history as immoral corrupt broadcasting liars.
Decay of journalism in BBC studios
*THIS IS THE 🅱️🅱️C*
Maybe if we sing the muufin the mule theme, they'll bring it back. C'mon gang, join me.
There is no Dr.Who because Dr. Who did not come from Alexandra Palace. It was always taped in Lime Grove and then Television Centre. The blurb above says: "Watch a selection of clips from programmes which all came from Alexandra Palace, when the BBC was there, 1936-1981."
Television Is Here Again is a classic!
It sure is, I’ve got it on VHS with the G certificate.
@@miracleworld4694 well it’s from the 40s !
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Haringey could be proud because of BBC broadcasting at Alexandre Palace.
Nice to see Mr Cholmondley-Warner making an appearance.
No it’s a girl and she is sing for the bbc
*tHiS iS tHe BbC*
Zoomer
Microorganism Giorno saying this is the bbc is bizarre.
Superb
Those clips that say "interlude" from about 4 minutes in. Are they the same sort of thing as what we have nowadays, where there is an unseen person tells us what is coming up next?
*who tells us
I think it's more like either the equipment wasn't ready yet to show the next programme, or there was a guideline for "rest time" for viewers between programmes to let them make the tea, rest their eyes, etc. But I may be wrong!
No, they were generally not spoken over - just resful music. (You can I think find most of them on UA-cam.) I think they were just fillers, for when a prog. was slightly too short, and also used when something broke down.
Picture Page looks awesome.
Peter Ustinov being a acting genius .
I think you're realized that BBC is almost 100 years old now
Dude…💀💀💀
Eileen Fowler....
my mind: she sounds a lot like Hyacinth Bucket....
my oh my
its amazing to think that just a few years earlier Orson Wells caused a panic with War of the Worlds on the radio.
Nice!
Good to see Mr Cholmodely Warner making an appearance .
7:06 live calling? Woahhh
I can watch the videos from BBC in France, however, I get a message "the channel you requested is not available in your country" when I try to see the full channel of the BBC.
Maybe it's because you don't hold a UK tv licence - everyone with a TV set with receiver has to pay annually and the proceeds go to the BBC. This fee pays for the service and they don't have to show commercials for revenue.
I can watch them because I am British.
Oh my, how we hated those damn interludes.
But really the worst thing was the 'football results' that came on just before Doctor Who and lasted a whole hour with some guy literally reading out the tables of football scores from every match played throughout the whole of England and Scotland that week.
That's still done, just in a more graphically busy way.
I think that was because of the high proportion of the (male) population which did the football pools.
The Rai in Italy started thier broadcast in the early 1950's with a format like this from early BBC broadcast
I clicked on a video titled "Young Girl Takes on BBC". It wasn't what I thought.
this, guys, is HD in the 50's :D
can not stop thinking of John Cleese when I see the announcers, Very Monty pythonish.
Public information announcement......Your TV will work perfectly well without a licence...Mine does !
6:05 - A very familiar tune to us Canadians of a certain generation.
All the early clips were shown in cinemas to publicise the tv service
I'd watch keep fit if it were on today
3:13 they used that in a doctor who episode based around the queens coronation
Was it on that one series 2 episode about the old lady on the Television? And then took roses face off?
Good video; 27 years after the BBC went on the air, the broadcasting network would create its own Mickey Mouse, Doctor Who. (I am only joking with you.)-JW
God save The BBC.
At 6:49: Why is the guy in the middle fondling the lapel and tie of the guy on the left? Weird...
cool
John Cleese ?manning to telephone with the the power cut live very funny good old BBC
@ Paul Davies: I'm not the only one who noticed Gerald Priestland's resemblance to John Cleese then, Paul!
Is that the only surviving footage of King George VI's coronation? I'm guessing it as higher quality footage would have been used if it existed.
The only footage from television - no video recorders for another 20 years and possibly no telerecording/kinescope for another 10. The event was filmed separately on film and that survives in good quality.
What is the music at 1:16
1:34 "Do you remember me? Jasmine Bligh." She'd have been disappointed (but not surprised) if they didn't after nearly seven years.
Not 'specially constructed' but specially ADAPTED studios. Not quite the same thing. Two 70 x 30 ft large rooms fitted out with tv gear. For example, TV Centre was 'specially constructed' as a tv 'factory'.
@TheEnglishWonder I wish we did.
so did they televise the crowning of king George vi or just the outside stuff
The whole situation regarding the destruction of the BBC as we once knew it is absolutely criminal. I spent a wonderful career (up until retirement) employed by the BBC and could not have wished to work elsewhere - even though my first year in TV (aged around 18) was with Associated Rediffusion, later to become London Weekend Television, then based in Wembley and just prior to its move to the South Bank in London.
LWT was a great employer and looked after me extremely well, even "assisting" with my transfer to BBC Radio in London - all thanks to LWT's John Berger.
I later moved back to my home town of Manchester where the BBC was about to open a brand new Broadcast Centre for both radio and TV. I remained there until retirement and enjoyed an amazing career, having moved from audio operations into vision mixing.
During that time, numerous opportunities arose for me to be both director and vision mixer combined, mainly on music based programming, but I was also asked to direct and vision mix the very last UK-based International version of "It's A Knockout" at the Blackpool Ice Rink.
I feel extremely priviledged to have enjoyed an absolutely fantastic career, and genuinely could not have wished for more.
There is however one "credit" I must award, and that is to the person who constantly supported me in my quest to move on within my BBC Manchester career, where I continued to try to become one of THE best amongst my London based colleagues - the late Head of Centre, John Ithell - thank you John x
Gosh, the great Paul Walker?! I hope you are well.what a nice piece. I remember all the music shows, Oxford Road Show, Old Grey Whistle Tests too, It's a Knockout etc.etc. very happy days in Manchester. I was in VT.. you are remembered fondly. John Ithell was on my recruitment board( 33 Cav. Square) when he was in London..nice guy..i was very lucky! I could talk for days!! Best wishes.xPW
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Is it Violet Carson (of Ena Sharples fame in Coronaion St ) Presenting at 2.21 ?? Anybody??
that's because it never came from Alexandra Palace .. all the clips relate to programmes that came from there...
I remember it all from Muffin the Mule onwards! Lord but I'm growing old...............
Let's TV History ...
I want a BBC logo “TAC” in the 60 s’
...and now a choice of viewing on BBC
for those of you who don't like sport, there's SPORT!
No Peace No BBC 🔥
"Nation shall speak peace unto nation."
It’s crazy that tv presenters used to take calls on live broadcasts. Innocent days of television.
They didn't - it's just that the launch of BBC 2 was an absolute mess and they didn't have anyone to spare to answer the phone
@@katie2940 Yes they did, whenever there was a breakdown. It wasn't about having anyone spare, it was a phone on the presenter's desk solely for the presenter's use.
Until the early 90s or so, particularly on the news, a phone was an essential prop, at least as a backup. This was to allow correspondents to join the broadcast in case there was no video link. Also, in earlier times, when the news was a bare-bones operation, the control room used to use this phone to send instructions directly to the newscaster rather than go through a floor manager or director. By the 70s, this would have been a last-ditch resort rather than a matter of routine; and the news could usually be co-ordinated in the same way as any other live programme.
BBC is the best
4:56 - Hey! I know this guy - he directed _W1A,_ too. Yet, for some reason, this retrospective completely ignores *BBC Me.* Typical.
I only came here for muffin the mule
Connie Bescoby SAME!! WORLDS BIGGEST FAN!
Maybe if we sing the Muffin the mule song, we will bring him back. Anyone with me?
Well, times have changed,but BBC still belongs to top European tv public broadcasters along with German ARD/ZDF , Swiss SRG , Czech ČT, French FR,Norwegian NRK,Danish DR and Austrian ORF
Colour tests using RCA cameras.
Who was the beautiful announcer after Petula Clark?
08:41 ~ 09:08 Ask Zena
Is that Patricia Laffan at 2:23?
Looks like her and given the fact that was she was hanging around Allie Pallie in 1946 for a number of televised plays, there's a high chance it could be her.
So who knew Angus Deayton launched BBC2?
Petula Clark, she of "Downtown" fame.
& the Lady who worked with Muffin the Mule, looked like Dame Vera Lynne to my eyes. OOps. Well, I was not around until 1970/ lol.
That Lady who worked with Muffin the Mule was the late Annette Mills, sister of Sir John Mills. She died early in 1955 at the age of just 61.
Hairstyles of the period.
Nice, clipped accents.
ok
It used to be so good and worth watching. It's comedy was gold. No more sadly.
What's wrong with two blokes dancing together? It's worth the licence fee on its own for entertainment value
alright who let the BBC on youtube? come on own up
Daily Mail at 60p a day or the BBC at 40p?
Neither at 0p a day.
BBC Before Woke: Nah dey hav' to talk like reeel British people or it's, yu no, like racism like.
BBC VS CBS
Was the colour test in 1959 actually transmitted or for a public event?
I don't know about that specific event, but there were definitely experimental colour actual transmissions on 405 line VHF - even a version of NTSC (which VHF's propagation characteristics highlighted the shortcomings of, mainly the hue drift). Of course, virtually no-one had a colour set, since the standard hadn't been decided, and such sets were hugely expensive; the experiments were really to evaluate the various systems. (Colour didn't come - in its final form, PAL-I for the UK [and Eire] - until somewhat after the 625-line UHF service was established.)
what was going on with the young lady that was operating like a telephone operator?
It was pretending to be a request programme - "Picture Page" - people 'phoned in and asked for what they wanted to see. Not real, of course.
Consider, at some point the BBC thought George VI's coronation wasn't worth keeping?
There was no means of recording TV before the war.
@@jdb47games Really? When was the first recorded broadcast done? Surely it wasn't all live for 20 years?
@@04nbod Things could be filmed and then shown on TV, but in the 1930's there was no way of recording an actual TV picture from a live transmission. That only started with telerecording (filming the TV picture by synching the frame rate of a cine camera with the frame rate of the TV) in the late 1940's and then VTR in the late 1950's. Most TV was done live, up until the mid 1960's.
Why am I watching this?
I live in the U.S.A....
Can't see any reason why you shouldn't; I (UK resident) might just as easily watch something about the history of one of the US networks. It's just interesting!