Search Results for: Marconi

[…]others applied to go over. We were accepted and of course we went over before the studios opened. In those years we had two studios, A and B. One was Marconi and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have to learn both systems of course. And I did all the jobs. I used to b[…]

[…]no. Sound recording techniques, we didn't use optical and there was only optical recording, we didn't use optical in the BBC. I did have a spell on a Marconi Stille recorder which was steel wire but otherwise we, our recordings consisted of quickcut discs.Roy Fowler: They tested out the Blattnerphon[…]

[…]o get them to change tubes. If you've got a tiny little speck or its slightly lossy on one side of the picture or whatever. And we were using Mark 3, Marconi image Autocons[?] on nearly all our programmes. The standard camera in ITV, although we did have some Pye, we had some RCA, but that was the m[…]

[…]hed to this. We went down to a place called Poldhu in Cornwall, and it was a lovely bay with a lovely circle of sand, and apparently Poldhu was where Marconi sent the first message across the Atlantic, apparently. And they said, "This is it" you see, this lovely flat, calm sea there, and they said, […]

[…]ies, things like that. AL But you were based weren’t you at St Mary Abbots, wasn’t it. JG Very briefly, but the programme went out from the Marconi studio in Kensington somewhere. NS Yes, yes, just off the High Street. JG That’s right, that’s right. But we were cutting at Lime … […]

[…]mething. And Bill stood, had the Grandville theater where they were doing a lot of work for the COI. And he had sort of upside down organs hanging on Marconi, four cameras, which produced the most awful results in 16 millimeter because they were working through the prism. The prisms didn't match. An[…]