Television set in 1948 film

[Panrock]

Glimpsed in the 1948 film "The Ghost of Rashmon Hall" on TPTV the other day... what is this set? Could it be pre-war?

The second picture has been contrast-enhanced and may show a rectangular recessed area for the speaker.

Steve

[beery]

Hi Steve,
I wonder if it is the same Baird T25 that we see in the 1946 film "Appointment with Crime"?
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/baird_t25.html?language_id=2
Maybe it was just knocking around in the props dept?

Cheers
Andy

[Freya]

Film is freely available to watch at Dailymotion, set is visible 1min 33
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rbwd3

[leemck84]

Hi
I'm normally a lurker on here but feel compelled to say that this TV looks like it could be a Cossor 437T . It looks like a table model and would appear to have the heavily chamfered top edges to the cabinet which make this model stand out.

Lee

[Panrock]

First, here's a clearer view from the film.

And here's the Cossor 437T (second picture). Not sure...

Here's the source link of the Cossor picture, where you can browse a range of television receivers:

http://www.radiocraft.co.uk/radiolympia/radiolympia.htm

Steve

[leemck84]

Hmmm, looking at that other shot from this film it looks as though it may be a console set. Obviously that rules out the 437T.

[Panrock]

There seems to be a trace of a horizontal scale below the screen. The radio in the room could be a jelly-mould pre-war Ferranti. Could this television also be a pre-war Ferranti?

[leemck84]

Now that would be interesting. Do any pre war Ferranti TVs exist now apart from the chassis only that is owned by the science museum?

[Panrock]

No, just that one, as implied in the database here:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_database.html

Steve