One Hundred Years Of Telly

Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that it’s a hundred years since the first public demonstration of tele…

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Happy 100th birthday television!

On January 26th, 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demo of a working television system in his laboratory above what is now Bar Italia on Frith Street, in London's Soho.

🎵 You've had your time, you've had your power, you've yet to have your finest hour.

No, wait, that's radio. Never mind, same thing but with pictures!

#Television #JohnLogieBaird

The Band Wagon
Watching #TheBandWagon and looking up #JackBuchanan's Wikipedia. Who knew he was a telly pioneer and had been at school with #JohnLogieBaird?
"On 12 June 1928, Buchanan participated in the first-ever transatlantic television broadcast. It was conducted by Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, an important figure in the technological development of television."
#TV #Musicals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Buchanan
Https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000p33w
Jack Buchanan - Wikipedia

If you're interested in radio or television history or technology, or #Orkney in general, you might enjoy The Televisor, a short film I have made which premieres on YouTube tonight at 7pm. Kim Foden tells the story of how her father and uncle first brought TV to Orkney using a home-made radio televisor.

#YS2022 #independentfilm #orcadianstories #oralhistory #televisor #marconi #johnlogiebaird

https://youtu.be/6-UCQbzWW2c

Orcadian Stories - Kim Foden: The Televisor

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