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"Impeccable" pedigree.

I have the American blues set in Europe on dvd :)

Brownie not jus a great guitarist but piano player.. love you Brownie and bert!

Scott was a pragmatist

Such a shame that Trump is allowed to make money off such a great land and culture.

This handsome documentary can be seen as a belated amende honorable. The BBC hates to admit it got anything wrong. For years its official line was that the suite of technologies Baird and Captain West offered in the 1936 trial were an improvised dead end, and that the only way forward was the all-electronic one. The BBC also obscured the truth of its preferred method's American origins, and its own blind alley: wanting output to be 'direct' (live) wherever possible. This was understandable as a contrast with television's rival, film, and BBC radio was averse to 'bottled' (recorded) programmes. But prioritizing as-it-happens material ignores the expense of production. It restricts the hours of transmission and wastes creative effort- hardly any of the Alexandra Palace pioneers' work has survived, and even most early videotape was wiped for re-use, whereas Intermediate Film and the videodisk preserved everything. The casual destruction of most Silent cinema to recover chemicals from the negatives was a tragically myopic policy. It was repeated by the BBC's archiving policies: casual vandalism which continued until the early 1970s. It was a high price to pay for the superstition that if it isn't happening in real time it isn't proper broadcasting. That belief also conduced to the over-emphasis on remotes, news and current affairs within the BBC's range of programmes: the deprecation of 'mere' entertainment and popular drama, which have done far more to unite the nation and justify the Corporation's primacy among the world's public service providers.

Excellent documentary, brought to light new facts and new perspectives on Baird. Thanks for making and uploading to You Tube,👍

No doubt about it, Baird made the breakthrough at the time

The BBC wanted to keep control over the emerging TV market - as it challenged the BBC monopoly and that is the main reason EMI won the 1930s contact for TV broadcasting Certainly for telecine, Bairds system was far superior to EMI

Excellent film new facts I had not heard of before about the development of colour TV

It's really good this series of films were made. Baird didn't get the credit he deserved

Extremely interesting. It was my Father (name can be supplied) who machined the prototype mechanical discs for Logie Baird. I remember him saying that the precision required was a huge challenge. My Father had a set at home before the war. He made his own set for the family after the war. I have the manual for the "Televisor".

Edith Wharton: novels, novellas, and her renowned biography, A Backword Glance was an extraordinary female writer. She had enonmous insight as she grew to know who she was as a woman, to expose the society she was brought up in with candor and sensitivity, unafraid she gained her freedom, and the deep wounds she felt which is a part of her inner life touching each word that she exposes. Madame de Treymes, Ethom Frome, Summer, Buner Sisters Old New York, The Mother's Recompense, A Backword Glance, The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence have been a part of my library since a young girl. What an array of people she met, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, Kenneth Clark, Andre Gide, etc. With deep appreciation for this documentary.

If Baird was alive and living young today, he be the man to invent the time machine.

Gauranteed to make you smile! Seeing him next week on tour with Dave Pegg in Otley!🥰

Bert playing with his hero. Pure magic.

Thank you

That song about blind boys guitar. Is surely the most lovely song I've ever heard

the way he plays a piano - what chance do we mere mortals stand !

Baird was a huge self publicist...30 line mechanical was far inferior to EMI's 405 line electronic.

mechanical TV is as bizarre as the early airplane inventors thinking that flight required airplanes with feathers and flapping wings

Though Baird was a pioneer of television he used other peoples inventions such as the Nipkow disc to produce his own version of television. However, his mechanical system was never adopted by any broadcaster. Only the fully electronic television system was adopted. The originator of that system was the American Philo T. Farnsworth whose electronic system was later developed by RCA in the US and Marconi-EMI in the UK whose 405 line system was adopted by the BBC.

Nicer person than some of the others!

Thank you very much.

Legend of the highest order

I come back to watch this every six months or so. Despite there being probably millions of videos on TH-cam, this one holds my concentration better than any other. Thank you Mr. Lehman.

What a guitarist. Definitely one of the all time greats!

To be a true genius must be a wonderful gift , but to be such a kind , caring one , is God's true embellishment of beauty and perfection ....... Irreplaceable .

Crikey 1st time heard this no wonder jimmy page took this for “white summer” and simple minds song Belfast child

I was snowed in one winter and the power went out. I started rummaging through the books my mom had and I found the "Age of Innocence" I started reading it and couldn't stop. A few weeks later I had a dream, and in that dream I was sitting on a bench in a city, it felt like the late afternoon. A woman came up to me and asked me if I would hold her dog while she went and did something, I didn't catch what it was, I sat and waited for a long time and then a man came up and said, " she won't be coming back, I'll take care of the dog. That's when I woke up. Years later I watched a video about this lady and I saw what she looked like for the first time. The lady in my dream looked just like Edith Wharton.

Abby Walk

The best ever Tom Bingham

Viewers might find this of interest - Scotlands 'forgotten best selling author" : www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyldjm18e6o

beautiful soul to write like this

Carmine Green

Gee, wait until you see an Excelsior.

10:23 Kenny G just after Martin Taylor must be a joke

Lo sentito a Bologna negli anni 80

Iowa- The political barometer of our country?! Seriously? Seriously?! 🤭 See me in November. 💙💙💙💙💙💙

Walker John Thompson Charles Thomas Kimberly

Lee Melissa Hall Christopher Miller Margaret

Very beautiful song, two amazing guitarist

Acoustic magic from two musical giants! Bravo!

20:34 It is not well known that J. Logie Baird is the namesake of the cartoon bear Yogi Bear.

she sounds out of tune here ?

strange enough ... no word about French TV before WW2 ...

I think it might be correct that the Loch does not depict Duddington at least not in a literal way but, it does show a loch and seems compelling to believe the painting could be that of Raeburn. Interesting, either way and I hope we don’t get too caught up in the nationality of the painter. It’s obviously a Scotch scene in a Scotch style of a Scottish subject. It’s lovely and compelling and charming and interesting and I am glad to hear about it!

Thank you for this !!

This only addresses women from families of means.

In my A I version off reality this is as good as as it gets