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[…] the picture or whatever. And we were using Mark 3, Marconi image Autocons[?] on nearly all our programmes. The standard […]

[…]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[…]

[…] briefly for the J.L. Baird television company, and then for Marconi before entering the film industry as a sound engineer […]

[…]handsome young man in naval uniform with a ball of the earth, with his foot on the ball, the world at your feet, and I fell for him. I applied to the Marconi Company and they took me on as a boy to learn wireless. I got my first class certificate after three months hard study. Most people took six m[…]

[…]less, you know, but it's very early days, you know, spark sets and all that. But they had all this equipment, which we were trained on; duplicates of Marconi equipment that would be on a ship. So after a year, we sat for the Postmaster General's First Class Certificate of Proficiency in Radio, Wirel[…]

[…] big library of books and he was very interested in Marconi, Edison, and all these people, the big inventors of […]

[…]Allen: Oh my Grandfather was marvellous!Rodney Giesler: He taught you did he?Larry Allen: He had a big library of books and he was very interested in Marconi, Edison, and all these people, the big inventors of the day, and I devoured that.Rodney Giesler: And he was your Mother's Father?Larry Allen: […]

[…]ould get five telephone calls and we would all jump in the air and go and have a cup of coffee. And in those 21 days Baird was in one studio and Marconi in the other. And somehow or another, certainly I always liked working with the Baird boys the best because they were Scots and English and th[…]