BBC Televison celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1976. Various events took place to commemorate this anniversary and this film features just one of them. Featured...
Jasmine Bligh re-opening BBC Television after the Second World War. Transmitted: 7th June 1946 This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered...
A demonstration of modern fire fighting methods with a ninety foot steel turntable escape ladder outside Alexandra Palace. The presentation of this programme was by...
Episode 1 in the series about the pioneering days of Television Outside Broadcasts in the years after World War Two. Features excerpts from programmes, many...
Director: Marcel Varnel. Producer: Edward Black. Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures. Starring: Arthur Askey, Jack Hylton and His Band, Richard Murdoch, Patricia Kirkwood, Moore Marriott, Freddy...
Blue Peter looks at the history of British Television. Originally transmitted: 12th May 1999 This film footage is from the Archive Collection held by the...
Episode 2 of the Granada Television documentary which looks at the early development and growth of the medium and the attempts to perfect television in...