Television’s Opening Night: How the Box was Born
1 x 90’ | Windfall Films | BBC Four
Producer & Director
A colourful medley of social history, engineering challenges and complex stunts, broadcast on the 80th anniversary of the launch of BBC Television. Presented by Dallas Campbell and Professor Danielle George, together with an engineering team from Cambridge University and a cast of fifty or so volunteers, this was a celebration of the pioneering spirit of television’s earliest days.
“Lord Reith would be proud”, Radio Times
The film was given a special screening at the BFI
Prof. Danielle George and Dallas Campbell pretending not to be cold in the world's coldest studio
A homemade electron beam
"Electron beams and dancing girls"
Early television was surprisingly fast moving
Lily Frier, TV's oldest surviving star
Dallas Campbell filmed by our mechanical spinning disc camera
Guest of honour, Lily Frier
Dallas Campbell gets into character