The Birth Of British Television

Author : Mark Aldridge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230346727

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The Birth of British Television by Mark Aldridge Pdf

When the BBC launched the world's first regular, high-definition television service on 2 November, 1936 it was the culmination of decades of technological innovations. More than this, however, the service meant that the principle of television had finally found its place. The Birth of British Television – A History traces the early history and development of television, from the experiments of amateurs to the institutionalised developments that led to the world's first regular, high definition television service. Author Mark Aldridge provides a clear, in-depth and accessible introduction for those either exploring the period for the first time or seeking new insights into the beginnings of the industry. In tracing the origins and development of television, Aldridge focuses on a number of important factors including the attitude of the press towards early television and examines the way that expectations of television changed over time prior to its official launch. Utilising new research, this illuminating study examines how the aims for a new television service developed, and the extent to which content and technology were linked. The Birth of British Television approaches this formative period from several perspectives, from private individuals to the BBC and government, while also examining the broader opinions at the time towards the new medium through press reports and feedback from the general public. Also included is an assessment of early programming, which helps to offer a new and profound evaluation of the development of early television. Mark Aldridge is a Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Southampton Solent University, UK. He specialises in British television and both film and television history. His previous publications include T is for Television (2008), an analysis of the work of Russell T. Davies, co-written with Andy Murray.

Author : Peter Graham Scott
Publisher : Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015047844397

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British Television by Peter Graham Scott Pdf

Peter Graham Scott joined BBC-TV in 1952 as a young producer-trainee. Since then he has been part of every major development in the television medium, including the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the birth and growth of commercial TV, special broadcasts for schools, the second BBC channel, the well-timed introduction of color in time for live shots from the moon, the utterly different Channel Four, and Channel Five. During the early years of his career Scott directed over 40 original live dramas, in addition to episodes of Danger Man, The Prisoner and The Avengers. Scott's career reflects the rapid development of British television over four decades. He tells his story with insight, wit and thorough technical knowledge. Along the way he shares anecdotes about stars and their humble beginnings--Judi Dench, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Diana Rigg, Michael Gambon and Jane Seymour--as well as tales of encounters with such talents as John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins, Peter Sellers, Donald Pleasence, Dylan Thomas, and Brendan Behan. The author concludes his memoir with some perceptive thoughts on world television's past--and future.

Author : Tony Currie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Television
ISBN : 190305317X

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A Concise History of British Television, 1930-2000 by Tony Currie Pdf

Author : R. W. Burns
Publisher : IET
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0863410790

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British Television by R. W. Burns Pdf

This book is concerned with the history of British television for home reception from 1922/23 to 1939, when the London Station closed down for the war years. Great care has been taken to ensure that an unbiased, accurate history has been written and the work is based predominantly on written primary source material.

Author : Bob Crew
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780921310

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Britain's Television Queen by Bob Crew Pdf

Focusing purely on Queen Elizabeth II's relationship with television, this book shows how she was ahead of the game in helping to change the face of British television from the outset of her reign in 1953 when she let the cameras into Westminster Abbey. The Queen embraced television at a time when Winston Churchill and her government advisors recommended that she should keep them out - on the grounds that the cameras would destroy her royal mystique - right through the 1950s which was Britain s television decade (for reasons that are not generally understood today), when Britain became the first nation in the world to have public service television. In 1969 the Queen opened the doors to the cameras once again for the invention of Britains first family-reality-TV, fly-on-the-wall programme, showing how she and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh and their children, Charles and Anne, went about their daily lives, thereby giving the seal of royal approval to reality-TV, ahead of the first programmes in the United States and the UK that followed in her wake. Queen Elizabeth II can accurately be described as a television queen, the first monarch to understand and embrace television and, in particular reality-TV, which is why she was light years ahead of other royals and her government ministers. Television was for her a right of passage and, not until she ran into bad and stormy weather with Princess Diana in the 1980s and 1990s, did she have any image problems with television. These problems no longer remain today, evidently, as once again the television arrangements are in full swing for her Diamond Jubilee celebrations this June. Queen Elizabeth II remains the most televised and visualised person in the world.

Author : Andrew Crisell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134538058

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An Introductory History of British Broadcasting by Andrew Crisell Pdf

An Introductory History of British Broadcasting is a concise and accessible history of British radio and television. It begins with the birth of radio at the beginning of the twentieth century and discusses key moments in media history, from the first wireless broadcast in 1920 through to recent developments in digital broadcasting and the internet. Distinguishing broadcasting from other kinds of mass media, and evaluating the way in which audiences have experienced the medium, Andrew Crisell considers the nature and evolution of broadcasting, the growth of broadcasting institutions and the relation of broadcasting to a wider political and social context. This fully updated and expanded second edition includes: *the latest developments in digital broadcasting and the internet *broadcasting in a multimedia era and its prospects for the future *the concept of public service broadcasting and its changing role in an era of interactivity, multiple channels and pay per view *an evaluation of recent political pressures on the BBC and ITV duopoly *a timeline of key broadcasting events and annotated advice on further reading.

Author : Gerald Beadle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003820604

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Television by Gerald Beadle Pdf

Television: A Critical Review (1963) is written by Sir Gerald Beadle, once Director of the BBC, and possessing of a long and wide experience of broadcasting as it expanded and grew. He was there at the birth of television, and details this and the subsequent developments over many years into a global phenomenon.

Author : J. Bignell,S. Lacey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137327581

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British Television Drama by J. Bignell,S. Lacey Pdf

Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction since the 1960s, and considers its likely future.

Author : Stephen Bourne
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750993630

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Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV by Stephen Bourne Pdf

The television set – the humble box in the corner of almost every British household – has brought about some of the biggest social changes in modern times. It gives us a window into the lives of people who are different from us: different classes, different races, different sexualities. And through this window, we've learnt that, perhaps, we're not so different after all. Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV looks at gay male representation on and off the small screen – from the programmes that hinted at homoeroticism to Mary Whitehouse's Clean Up TV campaign, and The Naked Civil Servant to the birth of Channel 4 as an exciting 'alternative' television channel. Here, acclaimed social historian Stephen Bourne tells the story of the innovation, experimentation, back-tracking and bravery that led British television to help change society for the better.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Broadcasting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018477807

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The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom by Asa Briggs Pdf

Five-volume history of broadcasting in the UK. Together the volumes give an authoritative account of the rise of broadcasting in this country. Though naturally largely concerned with the BBC it does give a general history of broadcasting, not simply an institutional history of the BBC. Vol 1. - The birth of broadcasting - covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company before it became a public Corporation in January 1927. - Vol 2. - The golden age of wireless - covers the period from the beginning of 1927, when the BBC ceased to be a private company and became a public corporation, up to the outbreak of war in 1939. - Vol 3. - The war of words - covers the period from 1939 to 1945, is concerned not only with the impact of the Second World War on the structure, organization, and programmes of the BBC, it also deals directly with the role of the BBC outside as well as inside Britainches - Vol 4. - Sound and vision - The ten years following the end of the Second World War were critical years in the history of British broadcasting. They witnessed the rise of television and the end of the BBC's monopoly. - Vol 5. - Competition - continues the monumental history of broadcasting in the UK over a period of 20 years, from 1955 to the mid 1970s.

Author : Jason Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198742339

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The Intimate Screen by Jason Jacobs Pdf

This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 1936-55. It examines the continuities and changes of early television drama, and the impact this had upon the subsequent 'golden age'. In particular, it questions the caricature of early television drama as 'photographed stage plays' and argues that early television pioneers in fact produced a diverse range of innovative drama productions, using a wide range of techniques.

Author : Katie Kawa
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534563797

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Television by Katie Kawa Pdf

It is sometimes said that we are living in a Golden Age of television. What does that mean, and how did we get there? Readers find the answers as they trace the history of television, from its invention to the current age of "Peak TV." This fascinating story is presented to readers through informative main text, annotated quotations, detailed sidebars, primary sources, and a comprehensive timeline. Television has changed nearly every aspect of life in many countries, and readers are sure to be excited by this fun and fact-filled look at how history and television have influenced each other.

Author : Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Television broadcasting
ISBN : IND:30000055969210

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The Guinness Book of Classic British TV by Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping Pdf

Author : Michael Scriven,Emily Roberts
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800735088

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Group Identities on French and British Television by Michael Scriven,Emily Roberts Pdf

Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of popular television. Thanks to cable, satellite and now digital technology, television broadcasts can reach an international audience. The reaction from cultural critics has been mixed. As the debate concerning the effects of new telecommunications and audiovisual technology continues unabated, this book examines the underlying hypothesis that collective allegiances are moving away from the national paradigm towards the global/local model and provides a balanced appraisal of the depiction of a select number of group identities on television in Britain and France.

Author : John Corner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015021987378

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Popular Television in Britain by John Corner Pdf

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