1949 documentary on kinescope recording!

[Rinehart]

Hi Troy,
This is part of a larger film which I think I downloaded once and burned to a disc. I'll look around for it, but it might take some time; my house looks like the Collyer brothers decorated it. I love looking at this kind of stuff, trying to imagine what it would have been like to be in the studio with them. Have you ever seen the little bit of film of a 1938 BBC broadcast that was picked up by engineers at either RCA or GE in New Jersey? By sheer good luck they happened to have a 16-mm camera already loaded and ready to go, so they just parked it in front of a monitor. No sound, and the picture fades in and out, but sometimes its clear enough that you could identify the woman as Jasmine Bligh. It is posted on the Alexandra Palace Television Society

http://www.apts.org.uk/recording.htm