BBC Archive has a look at very early television! “A survey of BBC television production during the first six months since its official launch in 1936. Introduced by Leslie Mitchell, Jasmine Bligh and Elizabeth Cowell. Programme excerpts include: artist John Piper reviewing the work of Thomas Gainsborough, Pablo Picasso and the young sculptor Henry Moore; the Bavera Trio demonstrating their dynamic brand of roller skate dancing; Dr Charlotte Wolff conducting an analysis of Jasmine Bligh’s palms; and the renowned dancer and choreographer Johnny Nit performing a high-energy tap dancing routine.

This clip is from Television Demonstration Film, originally broadcast (by TV manufacturers in select viewing rooms), 26 July 1937.”

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