Seeing By Wireless Lovely Film Showing Early Television Transmission Techniques - Features George Gee And Mamie Watson Footage

SEEING BY WIRELESS Lovely film showing early television transmission techniques - features George Gee and Mamie Watson
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	6793
	Catalog #:	446322
	Clip Number:	446322-1
	Orginal Film:	EP 284
	Timecode:
	Location:	England
	Year Shot:	1929 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	No
	Color:	No
	Headings:	ENTERTAINMENT/TELEVISION: Technology
	Description:	"Seeing by Wireless." VERY COOL! Early (1929) television. (no audio) Television demonstration in 1929 performed at the Long Acre laboratory of television pioneer John Logie Baird.; people watching television transmission, actors being televised, lots of good shots of machinery itself. United Kingdom "When will the next marvel...television...become commonplace? A few years ago a Scientist named Baird experimented with this crude machine...." MCU Geissler tube flickering (crude looking machine with spinning discs of different sizes attached to long turning pole). LS looking across backyards in English suburban neighborhood; wires stretched from tall poles to house. MS TV receiver wires attached to back of house; 2 cups are stuck against window, with wires leading to them, incl set of wires & rings like a frame of a tunnel. MCU engineer Arthur Thynne watching guages on machine; suddenly he throws 2 levers at once. MCU man sits beside boxy machine (w/ small screen??) and a big circular microphone (?); he is writing something down, then speaks into microphone. "Primitive to look at, this transmitting gear sent vision across the Atlantic early in 1928." MCU TV machinery w/ glass tubes. MCU more tubes. ECU tube. "Today, television is an accomplished fact...and Baird's machine (which was tested by the Postmaster General recently) daily 'televises' through the ether." MS man starts wheel spinning on machine, stays by machine watching guages on wall beside it. MLS side view of man & machine; more machines at rt. in this workshop. "The rotating disc scans the object televised, thus permitting the electric eye to transmit the light and shade of the subject under the ray..." ECU small glowing glass tube with wire twisted round it like a corkscrew; the tube light blinks on and off. CU side view part of machine like camera eye but w/ big disc spinning behind it. CU front view: looks like camera lens w/ wild dancing light flashing out from it. "Dancing shadows...on Mr. George Gee, the famous comedian (of "Hold Everything" at the Palace Theatre.)" C/U of George Gee speaking into a microphone, presumably being "televised". "Today's transmitter is a vast advance on the old Coulsdon gear of 1925." MS Thynne adjusting controls on large machine. Fade to low angle LS of wires attached at angles to tall poles outdoors. "On the receiving machine George Gee's face is "smiling through". MLS group of 5 women stand crowded together looking at 2 television machines. CU TV cabinet w/ hand adjusting knob at left, and at rt. round screen where George Gee's face is seen smiling and talking. (This may be via a film trick instead of the real thing, because it looks like his face is superimposed on the image of the TV box.) "And Miss Mamie Watson...also of "Hold Everything"...is also experiencing her first taste of television." C/U of Mamie speaking into a microphone, being "televised". "Inside the receiver...Another whirling disc, and a special neon light which flicks the image into being." MCU big metal circle (like projection reel) first still, then starts spinning, picks up speed and whirrs around very fast. CU hand removing box cover from a sort of vertical tube w/ bulbs at ends. CU 2 women looking at the TV machine. CU Television w/ Mamie Watson seen in the little round screen. C/U of part of the machine in operation. Various shots of the different parts of the transmitting machinery.M/S of man standing beside equipment twiddling knobs. Low angle shot of transmitter poles. "On the receiving machine George Gee's face is "smiling through". M/S of five girls gathered around the two receiving machines. C/U of a round piece of glass which appears to be receiving a picture of the comedian. (Looks to me like it has been faked by superimposition). A girl's hand turns a knob on the primitive television set. "And Miss Mamie Watson...also of "Hold Everything"...is also experiencing her first taste of television." C/U of Mamie speaking into a microphone, being "televised". "Inside the receiver...Another whirling disc, and a special neon light which flicks the image into being." C/U of the whirling disc. C/U of man lifting off part of the machine which covers the neon light. C/U of two girls looking into the receiver, they chat and laugh. C/U of the receiver with an image of Mamie upon the glass. (Again almost definitely faked).