OTHER DOWNSTREAM DISPLAYS
Television (SB15)
Its development: how television shows are put on.
"The displays here are concerned with television as a new medium of entertainment- a medium that took British inventors, engineers and producers an astonishingly short time to create. They are complementary to the displays in the Television section of the 'Transport' Pavilion where it is shown how moving pictures can be sent by radio.
Britain was the first country to establish a regular high definition service of television programmes. This began in 1936. Television is now one of our well-established media of public entertainment and information; but as the displays show, the techniques of engineering and production are still advancing."
Telecinema (SB16)
The first showings of new British documentary films in one-hourly programmes: large screen television.
"This is the first cinema in the world to be specially designed and built for showing both films and television.
The introduction of television into the cinema, and other technical innovations such as three-dimensional sound pictures, present new problems to the cinema architect. This building, which seats 400 people, illustrates how these problems can be overcome.
The film and television equipment, the special stereophonic sound reproducers and the combined film and television projection screen, are of the latest British design. Taken together with the kind of programmes that are being shown, these innovations point the way in which the cinema of the future may develop.
The programmes in the Telecinema include a nunber of documentary films specially produced for the Festival, together with televised material.
The latter will consist principally of items originating in the Telecinema itself, but these will be supplemented by scenes within the Exhibition brought to the cinema direct by cable from the television cameras on the spot. On special occasions notable events, broadcast by the B.B.C., may be shown in the Telecinema."
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