Television is Here Again (1946) part one
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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• Television is Here Aga...
British television was born in 1936, however it was short lived being closed down three years later for World War II - and right in the middle of a Mickey Mouse cartoon. One of the early presenters was Jasmine Bligh - chosen from1,122 hopeful applicants.
With the war over, the television service re-started. Just one channel, the BBC. To open it, there was Jasmine again. "Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?"
This 70 minute 35mm film was made "in the Spring of 1946" to be both broadcast on BBC television and shown to cinema audiences. The concept was to explain what television really is... As Jasmine says, it is to be watched at home in front of a fire.
Due to UA-cam's policy of only accepting 10 min. video here is part one.
It's amusing - in a pathetic way - to read a comment here about "wonderful" this time was, "before the insanity we suffer from today". Seriously?!
World War II had ended the year before this film was made, in which at least 50 MILLION people had died, most under horrific conditions. The suffering was on a scale which is unbelievable today. And despite the happy people seen in this movie, Britain would still be undergoing great hardships for years to come. "Wonderful"? NO.
The winter of that year was a corker: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1946%E2%80%9347_in_the_United_Kingdom .
But the SJWs had yet to destroy western civilization, don't you know?
@@theprogressiveatheist7024 Europe was almost destroyed by a mad man put in power by the effects of the vengeful reparations imposed on Germany after WWI, a mad man who said, as quoted by Albert Speer, "The Is--- too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" Well, 80 years later, the Is---, with its dedication to a 7th century mad man whose behavior was remarkably similar to that of the guy who almost destroyed Europe, is gaining more power and influence each year. How much progress has really been made and how long will you continue to feel so smug about the future of your "progressive atheism"?
@@pcno2832 Why is it that some people can't look at a variety program broadcast over a new technology in 1946 without getting into the politics of WW2? It's time to stop picking at scabs and get over something that ended 75 years ago.
Is it possible for some things to get worse while others get better? Is it possible that sometimes the meaning of getting worse and the meaning of getting better are matters of opinion?
So much went into these early TV productions, true quality control and people who truly wanted the best for their TV viewing audiences.
1:12 I was thinking "I won't recognize any of these names from 75 years ago and 5,000 miles away." Then Petula Clark scrolls up. She really did get in at the ground floor.
Yeah, Petula Clark. That name threw me for a loop.
She's still alive too.
Danny Green was the big clumsy man in the original Ladykillers film.
Amazing, isn't it? Before she was a 60s hits maker, she was a singer on BBC radio, a child prodigy during WWII. Touring and cheering the British troops, raising morale the way Shirley Temple raised American morale during The Great Depression. She had a full career before her adult career ever came to be.
It is just coming up to 80 years since my father purchased his first Television set a Cossor 1210 with a15 inch Tube. Ilford still had DC mains so we had to have a rotary converter to be able for the set to work. I used to watch the original demonstration film avidly. I did not know at the time I would spend my working career in television. Still obsessed and watch too much TV and now Talking Pictures grabs with old films.
Jasmine Bligh who was the lady who was speaking at the beginning was a descendant of Captain William Bligh of The Mutiny of the Bounty fame.
Ah, she was Elisabeth Welch, African-American Father, Irish mother. Lived until 2003.
Father of African & Native American Indian descent; mother Scots & Irish
I’ve been in one of the old Alexandra Palace studios, I think it was the one which was originally used for the Baird system. Amazing how small it was.
She is the great singer Elizabeth Welch - wonderful American singer who electrified pre-war Paris and London. She was still singing as late as 1985 when I heard her sing Smoke gets in your eyes at one of London's benefits for People with AIDS. I'm sure there is more of her here on Wonderful Wonderful Yoooo Toob ........!
Only 17 years before Doctor Who :-)
He was there!
ewaf88 Yes, it's that timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly stuff again. The Doctor probably visited the 1946 studio in 1981 by mistake, whilst trying to download a Times newspaper from 2003. He had tried to generate a time data corridor, in order to access the internet from 1981. But it went wrong.
1. That's the name of the television program
2. The Doctor is part of a race called the Time Lords
3. Time And Relative Dimensions in Space (It can travel through time and space) Current shape a blue UK Police box
4. Not sure what you mean by Fully Functions in this context.
5 It began in 1963 and so far 835 episodes
Very clear and impressive pronounciation and audio for 1946!
Early television seems to have been powered by nicotine. The pipe or ciggy in nearly every mouth looks as dated as the technology.
Even in the very early 1970s you would see people smoking in the studio. I've seen late 1960s gameshows with people casually puffing away during the action.
Everything consumable was rationed for years after the war - including smokes of course, but they at least cut your craving for food.
This video is great for showing us how much engineering went into transmitting television signals, even in the earliest years of television.
Stefan, I cannot thank you enough for putting this gem up for all to see. What a wonderful look back.. that studio is out -o sight! …Jasmine is the cats, and we and the Mouse lived. I'd rather see this and British rail Locomotives than all the new soulless junk. Bon chance.
Interesting that this British program opens with a medley of all-American songs, including the aggressively swinging "Bounce Me Brother With A Solid Four".
The visual quality of this would've been far less on a TV then than the way this 35mm film copy looks.
The Mickey Mouse cartoon wasn't interrupted, it ran to the end, believed to be because the BBC didn't want to frighten the younger viewers and anyway, a few seconds wouldn't stop Mr Hitler would it?
I just wonder whether the cigarette smoke from the technicians interfered with the signal.
I think they all must have been issued with a Woodbine prior to recording this.
Beautiful voice.
Crystal clear pronunciation.
The makeup crew may have put on a lot of makeup to make her "pass for being white". I believe that the woman that was singing was black. She looks somewhat like a cross between Anita Baker and Alicia Keys.
The sound quality is superb for a film this old- The soundtrack must have had magnetic tape?-
Very much doubt it. Magnetic tape recording was a German thing and wasn't even seen here until after the war and not developed until the late 40's. Probably a standard optical track.
Broadcast: 7th June 1946
Christ, I had no idea. She was hugely famous during my own childhood but no one here in America knew that her first career had even existed, although her name came up ten times a day the year that "Downtown" hit the charts here.
Some of the act date from the original demonstration film of 1936. I t is just coming up to 80 years since my father purchased our first television set. I watched the film a lot. Little did I know thanks to Adolf eventually I spent my working life in Television .
Now I'm watching this on my computer.
When this was filmed, there were still people around who were alive during the Civil War! 😮
Britain's oldest person then, Sarah Fitt, was A HUNDRED AND SEVEN!
wow, they lived to fight in a war that happened 300 years before this broadcast?
@@jeffjefferson1503 He meant the American Civil War.
@@jeffjefferson1503 yes I meant the American Civil War which took place from 1861 to 1865.
@@R_Jackson yeah I think you're right. 🙂
Elexarndra Pelass.
Why have I not heard of that knockout singer Elizabeth Welch until just now ? Goes to show that fame requires more then just being super talented. At least she was properly promoted on this video. Also did not know that she sang Stormy Weather , one of my all time favorites.
Yesrs later, she sang it at the end of Derek Jarman's film of 'The Tempest', accompanied by a camp chorus of sailors. It was her signature tune.
Read Stephen Bourne's fabulous biography Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights & Sweet Music (Scarecrow Press, 2005)
For mid-40s television, it sure beats Milton Berle's mugging on our side of the pond!
My uncle managed a television control room back in the 1960s. The few smokers who were hired were sent outside to get their tobacco-drug fix, since the toxic tobacco smoke damaged bodies and equipment.
You seem like an unpleasant person
No, not bodies and ALL smoke damages early equipment. At that time doctors advertised cigarettes and asthma sufferers got cigarettes on the NHS to help.
Stop living in a dream.
guys smoking lol
Delightful...amazing how as the technology has become streamlined and superior by far, the quality of entertainment has gone down hill...sign up that girl right away!
+Oxfordclassicjazz Well said! :)
an aside,,, I am impressed also by the visual clarity and quality of the recorded programme
I miss chics with sniffy voices..........
Sadly they all died of lung cancer.
Television. Who can afford these things?
Compared to today, television equipment was terribly large and consumed a lot of power in relation to the quality of pictures and sound that could be reproduced.
With today's equipment the total production would be a lot simpler, much lower in cost, and the quality of reproduction would be hugely superior. The technology has come a long way!
And the mystique has dropped to zero, or less.
youtube only accepted 10 minutes of video in 2010? we can upload up to an entire 24 hours now!
the way they pronounce television and talk quick paced
This is now 2020, and I would be 79 if born in 1941, if they could have seen the mess now in 2020 at the bbc of it’s own making, the service should have used a crystal ball instead.
Get those wooden dancers, Daddyo! Only the Afro lady's singing is doing good.
A "Mickey Mouse" cartoon was telecast by the BBC on September 1, 1939, but there is a dispute as to whether the BBC abruptly went off the air in the middle of the cartoon.
Other accounts suggested the cartoon aired to conclusion, and that the "Beeb" didn't sign-off until a short time later,m when it's afternoon schedule of telecasts had ended.
Supposedly, the "Mickey Mouse" episode was included when the BBC resumed telecasts in 1946.
London was the only British city with TV until about 1949.
wow women were so slim and beautiful. I guess less food is better for society health...
ark never lived this one down!
From 02:18 to 02:33, the already well-known film trick of image in image was used. Probably to make it look good on film. The other presentations of the TV screen are already in order.
And then Jimmy Savile came along and ruined it 🥴
And they have no videorecorder back then until late 50s!
Only in 1947 did the Beeb put kinescope recording into operation. Even that - just filming an image off a tv tube - took tremendous time and effort to engineer.
If the BBC had retained Baird's 'intermediate film' process from the 1936-37 trial, far more original programing would have survived. As it was, all the 17.5mm film (standard gauge split in two) was melted down for its silver content.
Amazing how much SMOKING was going on in the backstage zones...the smoke, ashes and tobacco litter must have made the workplace stink!
ahh yes, the smell of tobacco, film, and paedophillia. And a scent of industrial uproar every now and then. BBC was the bee's knees
+Ben Attwood There weren't pedos or gays in the 1940's because they didn't have widespread drug use back then.
The Phoenix Hmmm.... You think tobacco isn't a drug? (strange) And I should imagine paedophilia was about as prevalent in the past as it is now ... (we just didn't hear about it very much). I am also puzzled that you see a connection with drugs.... ?
The Phoenix ughh!! What a nasty piece of work YOU are...!! (You are ignored)
You know who didn't have people smoking around him in the workplace, that would be Adolf Hitler, literally the worlds first anti-smoking NAZI.
....in Britain, the fledgling BBC television service was suspended, at the start of World War II in Europe, on September 1, 1939...and did not sign on again until September 1, 1946. This film attempted to recapture the anticipation when BBC-TV finally went back on the air. Note: all TV images in this film were "simulated".
BBC TV resumed in July 1946, not September. The first evening was the night before London's Victory Parade, for which an ambitious remote broadcast was put on air.
Its from bbc world news documentary 2019
Just wonderful iconoclastic historical material, we must save for ever. Graham Roberts
What are those spots on her tongue at 7:31?
"Television use to be 3 channels and free"
Although in the UK, and even to this day you still have to pay a license fee annually to operate a TV set.
Television was never free, In the documentry i just saw and i know from what i have been told, you paid £1 a week or in some cases put money in the back of a TV. There is no such thing as free. Somewhere, things are being paid for
Yes but it makes the BBC channels ad free - and costs less than one month's subscription to SKY which is so full of them some of the programs are unwatchable.
In analogue was 2 BBC channels and 3 commercial channels
After World War II ended, the television broadcast returned in 1946
As explained in the video description, lol
It’ll never catch on.
Before Beatles
that's entertainment.
Did everyone in the back rooms smoke all the time or just when the camrea's were turned on ?
I believe they are called the "Westminster Chimes".
Will like television 2019
I do have to say that Great Britain had Television Way before the United States did. And that's the truth.
Not true, we were demonstrating TV as a technology since at least 1926 and the first successful experimental TV drama was The Queens Messenger which was broadcast in New York in 1928. Most of the technology that kickstarted the tech was invented in the 1920s by a teenager from Idaho.
Petula Clark shows up in part 5 !
Delightful!
WHAT ARE THOSE BELLS CALLED AT 0:04?
Doctor who 2019
Again?????? 🤔
How many televisions were at people’s homes at the time. Apparently this film was shown at the cinema. To prepare the public of what was to come. Know the British be the most advanced at the time to transmit transmissions.📺
Bit late here, my understanding was there was 15,000 TV licenses in 1939 before the service was suspended. So about 15,000 ish receivers possibly.
@@martinhughes2549 The figure usually given was 20,000 sets reaching c. 60,000 home viewers at the 1939 closedown. Sales were beginning to take off, and costs falling, when Herr Hitler crashed the party.
The real different I usually see is in the differences in how TV was used initially. The UK of course saw it as a public service, and thus how the BBC was structured, while America saw entrepreneurial commercialism attached and that flourished more.
Didn't Jasmine Bligh work as an announcer on BBC Radio while the TV service was shut down??
With so many male staffers off to war, Ms. Bligh may well have been on radio during the war, returning to TV when it was resumed.
The Song is Cambridge Chimes from the (Now) Elizabeth II Tower aka Big Ben. Specifically, the Big Bell is the actual "Big Ben" and the little bells are Westminster Quarters, I think. Ah, the stuff you learn during the Olympics
How many parts does this HAVE?
As many as it takes to present the whole program! When this was put on UA-cam, they had a limit of 10 minutes per uploaded segments, so to get a full hour and a half on UA-cam you'd have to edit the program into 7 or 8 segments and upload each one separately.
You've done us all a great favor by preserving this presentation. Great!
I don't know about the UK, but in the US in the mid-20th Century, half of the adult population were smokers (male and female).
Reasons to be cheerful....part one....luvin it....
Well we have the British Lena Horne and Fred Astaire.
Well aren't you just fucking charming.
Trannywood Land 😎😍
Who's the singer at 6:00? - the first song on this historic broadcast is St Louis Blues - followed by Stormy Weather!
Elisabeth Welch.
boogie woogie sent me Here ! :) QC
Probably all the time back then.
In regards to quality, this is film, a recording. Depends on the transmissions quality. Sometimes it is different, Its kind of the same comparison with Video tapes and TV broadcasts, video is always inferier. Depends on the quality back then
It was better entertainment then than it is now.
Petula Clark!!! God, she's appearing somewhere here in NYC right now, I think.
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Television use to be 3 channels and free. Now its thousands of channels of nothing but crap that they charge for. R.I.P. Boob Tube.
There had been commercial television in New York as early as July 1941, when NBC's experimental station W2XBS became "WNBT", and CBS' W2XAB was officially licensed as "WCBW" (and DuMont's W2XVW eventually became "WABD"), but the beginning of World War II drastically curtailed all three to just a few hours a week {mostly for Civil Defense and "military" programming}, until just before the war ended. Then, TV stations and set ownership slowly began to expand across the United States...
The BBC television service actually commenced in 1936, but closed down in 1939 when WW2 broke out. It restarted in 1946.
Germany had television before everyone
I noticed the credits listed a Petula Clark, probably not the singer.
Yes it is Petula Clark
Typical BBC Television Service schedule for Wednesday 28th August 1946 - that is 72 years to this day, as I type this on Tuesday 28th August 2018:
11.00am until 12.10pm - Demonstration Film, specially designed to demonstrate television to shoppers in the high street during the mid morning.
3.00pm - Tour of the Zoo, Freddy Grisewood assists viewers
3.30pm until 4.00pm - Sidney Lipton and his orchestra perform for the viewers
8.30pm - Tour of the Zoo, same programme line up which aired at 3.00pm
8.45pm - Entre Nous, an intimate revue with Avril Angers, Mario Lorenzi and more
9.15pm - Guest Night - A G Street invites well know sports personalities to his home
9.40pm - Cartoon Film
9.45pm - Composer at the Piano - Vivian Ellis
10.00pm - The News in sound only
10.10pm - Closedown
So only 3 hours, 50 minutes of television that day.
wait how you know ?
@@televisionvietnamidentworl6563 BBC Genome archive
If you ran the television too long it would burn out all the tubes or valves.
Probably looted from Germany that equipment
How wonderful to have watched TV without incessant ads and banal deafening background “music” which ruin documentaries today.
All the smoking people! Funny...