[…]d filmmaking? Kenneth Griffith 13:27 Yes, in. I was film acting before the war, and I actually televised before The War at Alexandra Palace. Isn't it? Alexandra Palace? I did a play for a great actress who is unknown, Nancy Price, who ran what she ple[…]
[…] of that year, the high definition service was started at Alexandra Palace and people were already talking about it then. […]
[…]me." I was a long way, a long, long way ahead. Because that year - this was 1936, at the end of that year, the high definition service was started at Alexandra Palace and people were already talking about it then. They weren't worried, it was a novelty. We had - Crystal Palace was still - hadn't bee[…]
[…]me 19, 1935 this was 1932. Come 1935 and 1935 there was an internal memo came round seeking volunteers to join the experimental television service at Alexandra Palace. And I read this memo. I was now 19 I read this memo, and I said, that's where I'm going. That's Tomorrow's World. And I talked aroun[…]
[…]y for a Staff Officer to help wind up the Empire Air Training Scheme – this was virtually towards the end of the European War, and so I was posted to Alexandra House in Kingsway. And I think this was the most dangerous part, my most dangerous part of my war because I arrived there just as the […]
[…] learning at that time. It was only really just getting up steam after the war television. And most a lot of the transmissions were still coming from Alexandra Palace. Joyce Robinson 15:14 And all live Of course. Lois Singer 15:15 Oh,[…]
[…]st I've heard of it. Oh, yes, you are Head of Designs and supply. I said, oh, let's do this. All right. So I go away, and I'm told to report to Alexandra Palace. And I go to Alexandra Palace. I mean, founded. Chelsea, I found my office. It says on the door, Head of Designs and supply I go in. […]
[…]n a different way of lining up shots. And then I actually directed this astronomy series and out of that came The Sky at Night.Sorry, are we are Alexandra Palace or Lime Grove?This is Lime Grove, yes. I was at Lime Grove as a planning assistant and then towards the end, in about ’52 or so, we m[…]
