I together with my Foster Parents visited this hospital to see my Foster Father's mother who sadly passed away shortly after our visit it was about 1959/60. Sadly I forget her name. But her memory has never left me nor the hospital.
West London Chiswick , Devonshire Road/William Street. A relation had an open backed lorry, he and his wife would take us all down to Paddock Wood, leaving his wife with us. Open fires spuds on a stick, black pot cooking rabbit stew. Cant wait for the Fish and Chip van. Tucked up, on the straw the rain bashing off the corrugated roof. Outside the Pub, bottle of Lemonade and crisps. Our own kids gang, didn’t know that East London existed, but kids are kids we all mixed, even with the Gypsy kids , our Chiswick heritage, Hawkers etc . Off scrumping. Being told off for putting leaves in the bin. Whats that your cooking? On the Gypsy fire? First you gut it son , then roll it in clay and when its cooked pull off the clay and off comes the spines? It was an hedgehog. I was not offered any. Mum said if your hungry enough. Off down to Paddock Wood summer 2023, down memory lane.
Amazing Video of the tube factory and labs. I still think the vacuum tube has many other poosibilities Thanks for video from me Anthony in Canada , ham radio VE4AKF
Very interesting. Unless I’m mistaken, this was made by my late uncle. He made a vast number of educational films for Mullards/Phillips as well as various documentaries.
The research, design, tooling, resources and labor along with many other costs is a huge investment. Think of all the problems, headaches and countless meetings that go into determining if the whole effort is going to payoff in a given amount of time, plus the consideration of the economic forecast and the rapidly changing technology. That's a big gamble with all kinds of unforeseen problem like design issues showing up and new competition popping up.
Great to see this. I worked in the drawing office (1'56") and the engineering department (in the second minute) during my electrical apprenticeship at Mullard Simonstone near Burnley in the UK from 1979 to 1982, as well as many other departments in the glass factory and the CRT assembly factory. All Simonstone apprentices including myself did their first year at Mullard Blackburn a few miles away. We had a great engineering team and could design and build pretty much anything. Simonstone was the largest CRT manufacturer in Europe at that time turning out a CRT every 2 seconds 24/7/365. Sadly the factory closed many years ago and is now a business park. The processes shown in this video are for black and white tubes. Only colour tubes were made during my time there and some of the processes were far more advanced by then.
Thanks for the interesting info Tony, pleased you enjoyed it. I have acquired some silent film shot in the KB Factory in Hastings in the 1960’s I must get around to uploading it.
I was at Simonstone from 57 until 91 when it closed. Apprentice, plant electrical, electronics lab and finally drawing office. Finished on my 50th birthday.
What was the incentive for producing these documentaries ? Was it for internal training, advertising to customers ? Or advertising to potentialinvestors ? It seems like they show a lot of trade secrets
I think this type of film was for potential tv manufacturers to use their tubes, I have other films on washing machines and cleaners that were obviously meant for promoting the products.
in color TVs, if we have shadow mask and precise positions of blue red and green phosporus dots, how do picture streching, skewing, rotating and even resolution change work?
This has more to do with the deflection, geometry, scanning frequency etc. Advancements in the electronics that drive the CRT, rather than the CRT itself..
This is the America when hit the jack pot and export to whole world ,this is a good day's America. Now, sells only guns to rest of the world and creates instability . End of the Empire and instability has arrived in American's soil
Now most of the cheap crap is made in forced labor Muslim Uigher Prisons, or as China calls them, "Re-education Camps" You can be sure that those holidays decorations are made there for July 4th, Halloween, Christmas, New Year, etc. Quality control doesn't exist any longer. So much of this China crap is all produced for the landfills and not to be passed on to your children.
Memories, my uncle and grandfather before him had hops at Bewl Bridge Farm in Lamberhurst and as a child I picked and then had half a bin of my own at farms in Sissinghurst and Staplehurst. I bought my first drop handled bike with the proceeds of one summer's picking
@@billparsonsfilmarchive2828 records yes indeed. first Cliff and the Shadows but then 45s of the Stones on Decca. saw them live at Maidstone Granada Jan 1964, 20 minute set before top of the bill the Ronnettes I seem to remember . I still a have the bike but it needs new tyres!
@@punto182 I am not familiar with the Yank plumbing. In old movies, the Yanks were just following the Brits but Canadians weren't saddled with that old way of doing things.
@@ReevansElectro GoodMorning, Very rare on a refurb to install the old separate Hot & Cold Tap. Now we install cheap mixer taps made abroad along with some Far East Counterfits. The crude gravity header tank systems demise started in the late 80s with instantaneous Gas Boilers and Unvented Hot Water Vessels- Safety Device requirements are strict. Heat Pumps are the next thing to replace all the Oil & Gas Boilers. We have a good supply chain & manufacture for Stainless Steel Hot Water Tanks with Larger Coil Surface Areas. Heat Pumps are mostly imported, the larger UK Boiler manufacturers cling to Status Quo
What an amazing film! I wonder did anyone ever stop to think if all the heat/ chemical / HT voltage/ repetitious processes had an effect on worker's health? A 17" monochrome CRT is a heavy and explosive glass bulb!
I dunno. The only thing that comes to mind is fatigue and maybe injuries. I doubt that the heat and HT had any effects, unless it was IR heat generated by lamps and gas burners, you don't want to look at IR for too long without IR blocking glasses otherwise you might get glassblower's cataracts. I'm pretty sure that those chemicals eventually caused illnesses and environmental damage, this was made back when wastewater was often untreated and before the days of robots (robots started to see widespread adoption in the 1970s, after ICs began to be mass produced)
There is still a car ferry that takes you across Dartmouth, ( well there was in the 90`s) maybe there is some footage of it somewhere on here? @@billparsonsfilmarchive2828
Wel well well, memories are made of this. The opening shot is out side our kitchen back door, looking towards the "House" in the direction of Heronden Park & Tenterden. There are so many ghosts of my childhood many just faces but I see My father many times, he was engineer at West View along with Ben Dance & Fred Stanley. I see Matron Collard, Dr TJ & Glad Whoolet. When I could I used to help out at the shop so I notice Miss Kitts + many more who's names escape me.
Pleased you enjoyed the film, and thanks for the information on the names, was your father Charlie Free by any chance? I believe he was chief engineer at one time.
@@billparsonsfilmarchive2828 Yes he was my father, I recognise many more on the film but not the names. I used to be runner for the shop trolly if a patient wanted something that was not on the trolly I used to nip back to the shop for it.
My Pops told me that in the early 60s. He also told me I would be able to talk to the people in the car next to me. I told him he was "nuts!" Wish he could have lived to see it, and for me to apologize to him!
My father and grandfather were part of a generation that loved innovation and read lots of popular science magazines where things like cell phones, flat screen TVs, and even the internet were routinely predicted.
great documentary. who knew a decade later all this machinery was obsolete and new machines made to produce them faster with less human interaction. when i was a kid during the 70s i saw how tv's were made at an RCA tube factory, it still fascinates me today
Ther quality of sylvania valves were much better than Mullards. Mullard tv tubes were bad back in the fifties they wernt aluminised, other manufactures were.after a couple years of use they went dim. Our tv then jhad a mw4364 tube in it after 2 years had to be renewed emission was down. Mullard valves seemed to me to be a poor mans valve,. built like british cars using the that´ll do mentality. on the other hand RCA valves wer.e made with great care.- Take a look at a 12ax7 or 12au7 comparer then to a ecc81 or an ecc82.
These were just monochrome tubes. Would like to see how they applied the the phosphor coating and shadow mask into the manufacture of colour tubes. Great video though, made in the days of the BVA. (British valve association)
There is a Mullard film here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0Qd4IX3wpZk.html it does get on to manufacturing after the cartoon explanation.
The art of making such excellent documentaries has been lost long before CRT became obsolete. Replaced by flashy intros, short shots and long interviews. Not that anyone would care though what the technology behind their screen is anyway.
