Television Arrives!

+ intro by season curator John Wyver

Example of early films that were designed to introduce the television service to the nation.

  • Total running time 115min

Television Comes to London

BBC 1936. Director Dallas Bower. 17min

+ BBC Television Demonstration Film

BBC 1937. Director Dallas Bower. 30min

+ The Coronation Broadcast

BBC 1937. 8min

+ Television Is Here Again

BBC 1946. 50min

The first three documentaries were made by the BBC to showcase pre-war television from Alexandra Palace. The final film marked the service re-opening in June 1946 and looked back to pre-war transmissions, with recreated sequences from the earlier programmes. They were first shown on the opening day and variations of them followed over subsequent weeks and months.

See the talk New Writings: Magic Rays of Light with John Wyver.