[…] the time came for work I simply wrote to the Marconi Scientific Instrument Company and said, could I b e […]
[…]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[…]
[…] charge of their units. I think Dallas did some work and things at the BBC didn’t he before that?ROY FOWLER: That was later. He came from Marconi.HARRY MILLER: Atkins came from the GPO, and he built the telephone exchange at the studios at the time. John Reynders who was the musica[…]
[…] by the BBC Television Service in 1936 (alongside the EMI- Marconi system that succeeded it early the following year), he […]
[…] big library of books and he was very interested in Marconi, Edison, and all these people, the big inventors of […]
[…] a lovely circle of sand, and apparently Poldhu was where Marconi sent the first message across the Atlantic, apparently. And […]