Filmed in Bude, Cornwall, Malcolm Baird describes the challenge faced by his father after the theoretical proposal for television by Archibald Campbell Swinton FRS. Early in the war, Malcolm together with his sister and mother were evacuated away from London and settled in Bude. JLB would visit as often as his work, and his health would allow.
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About the JLB Digital Archive
Between 1994 and 2002, over 30 hours of historic eyewitness interviews were filmed for the documentaries ‘Tv is King’ [ Royal Television Society Award] and the widely praised ’JLB The Man Who Saw the Future’.Most of those interviewed either knew or worked closely with JLB. Few had previously been interviewed previously and this archive includes their only known testimony.
Interviewees include; German Television Pioneer - Professor Manfred Von Ardenne, Founder of the Voice of America - Donald Flamm, Personal Assistant to JLB 1933-39 - Paul Reveley, and Physicist Gilbert Tomes who helped JLB deliver The Telechrome as well as television components for Collusus.
Central to the archive is the testimony of Professor Malcolm Baird, the inventors son, filmed at many of the key locations in his fathers story. Including; Helensburgh, Bude, Frith Street, Lord Acre, Crystal Palace, Hastings and Bexhill. As funds allow, it is the intention to make all of this historic material publicly available for the first time ahead of the Centenary of Television which falls in October 1925, and marks John Logie Baird’s laboratory breakthrough with television in Frith Street, London.
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‘Sermons Soap and Television’ the autobiography of John Logie Baird has now been revised and updated by Malcolm Baird and is available from Birlinn Books as ’Television and Me’ :
birlinn.co.uk/...
To find out more about events to mark 100 years of Television, please visit:www.bairdtelev...
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