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Old 9th Oct 2019, 8:30 pm   #10
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Default Re: How it's made. 1950's Televisions

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Originally Posted by McMurdo View Post
and if you prefer something a little more British....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzu7vpowHY
Apart from obvious quirks and anomalies that are easy to spot these days, it's a good film. It's PCB production heavy, but that would have been the jewel in the crown in around 1960. It's such a shame that the British R&TV was overtaken by the Japanese and other countries, but we only have ourselves to blame I guess. Hey, we'd not long won a war and believed, mistakenly, that we were top dogs in the world at everything and always would be. What a difference a few years made. BTW, at the beginning, the graphics on the screen seem unable to choose between 'GEC' and 'GE' - what was going on there?!

Also, the commentator, he used to be on hundreds of such short documentary films, what was his name?
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