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SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal ( Volume: 131, Issue: 1, 2022)
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The First Broadcast TV Drama

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Publisher
SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type
Journal Article
Content Type
Original Research
Abbreviated Title
SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume
131, No. 1, pp. 59–63
Abstract
Television development, which began in the 19th century, was typically pursued as laboratory experiments. Ernst Alexanderson’s broadcast is considered a major step toward making TV a reality. A search for technical details concerning the historic 11 September 1928 television broadcast led to the Museum of Science and Innovation. The very limited documentation found in their files delineate steps taken through the eight months leading up to the broadcast and provide some details of the equipment employed. The broadcast of The Queen’s Messenger as well as prior and subsequent transmissions were much more than lab experiments, but fell far short of being a medium of entertainment. Nevertheless, without the introduction of appropriate receivers, home TV entertainment would not have existed.
Publication Date
2022-01-01
DOI
10.5594/JMI.2021.3129884
ISSN
Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2021.3129884
Author(s)
Richard Brewster
bio
Richard Brewster received a BSEE degree in 1960. He spent most of his career as a nuclear power engineer. After retirement, he volunteered for several years on a hospital ship in West African countries, eventually as acting chief radio officer. He was the television editor of Antique Wireless Association Journal for 20 years. Until recently, he served as volunteer project engineer during the construction of the Mercy Ship’s 37,000-ton hospital ship Global Mercy. He constructed an operating replica of the 1919 Eccles-Jordan Flip-Flop using period components leading to a paper published in the June 2018 issue of IEEE Spectrum. He also published Built for Battle, the story of the WWII Handi Talkie, in October 2020. He previously researched and constructed a working replica of a circa 1930 flying spot television camera using vintage components, a Peerless Carbon Arc Projector and 6 in. photocells.
Keyword(s)
Mechanical Television, The Queen’s Messenger
Copyright
© 2022 SMPTE

Bibliographic Reference(s)

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