John Wyver writes: After yesterday's post about Television Comes to London, let's stay in the first week of the official high definition television from Alexandra Palace, and turn our attention to the afternoon of Friday 6 November 1936. This more
John Wyver writes: The high definition television service from Alexandra Palace was just three days old on Bonfire Night 1936. That afternoon, after a performance under the name of the Mercury Ballet of Marie Rambert's dance company, the film documentary more
John Wyver writes: One of the wall-size blow-ups in the NPG's current Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World exhibition is one a well-dressed young woman, seen from behind, looking into the wartime ruins of Middle Temple (above). Nearby is a silver more
John Wyver writes: Apologies for the blog's month-long hiatus and the interruption of the daily 'OTD in early British television' posts. The last such post was on 25 September, and since then I have been immersed in a month-long process more
John Wyver writes: The later part of the evening of Monday 26 September 1938 was occupied by a feature programme titled Lambeth Walks Out. This was a kind of history of of the dance known as the 'Lambeth Walk', presented more
John Wyver writes: The evening of Sunday 25 September was mostly taken over by the 2 hour-plus reprise of Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV, originally produced in March by the innovative producer Dallas Bower. As before, Ernest Milton took the title more
John Wyver writes: Monday 24 September 1928 was the second day of a week of demonstration transmissions by John Logie Baird's company for the National Radio Exhibition at Olympia. Radiolympia attendees could step out on a dance floor to tunes more
John Wyver writes: Over the weekend of Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September 1938, the BBC's mobile unit made a return visit to Pinewood film studios for three OB broadcasts. Pinewood was the location for the first and most successful more
John Wyver writes: With James Jordan and Eleni Liarou, I am one of the organisers of this symposium next March, and I am pleased to share the details here. Please note that we have had to re-schedule the date, and more
John Wyver writes: From time to time it's worth checking in on the guest list for the magazine series Picture Page, in this case on the evening of Thursday 22 September 1938. The magazine show comprising brief interviews by Leslie more