I've walked past this corner on West St in central London a thousand times but I only just noticed this #JohnLogieBaird plaque; it's less than 30m from The Ivy
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Started reading this yesterday and I’m completely gripped! Beautifully written, fascinating story of a remarkable family. Good job @clare_paterson!
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Today we publish a report showing that the majority of those men, women and children who cross the Channel on small boats would be granted asylum in the UK because they are fleeing war and persecution. Here’s how the Home Office tried to rubbish our report last night….Show this thread
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#OTD - 1939 - "Television Surveys No 2: The #InternationalTelephoneExchange". OB from #FaradayBuildings, London.
The 25 min programme featured interviews by #LeslieMitchell, with Mr Thwaites (Chief Superintendent), Miss Pagel & Miss Spinks (Supervisors).
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*Joan Armstrong* - not, idiot me, Joan Fonteyn
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Update: in his unpublished ms 'Playback' Bower writes that Joan Fonteyn designed Fonteyn's costume (at present I can find nothing more about her), and music is a Walton bercuse, written for J.M. Barrie's final play, 'The Boy David'. But even he gives the choreography to Ashton.
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Also, from a later clip I'm now pretty sure backdrop for Fonteyn's dance is from 'Pasquinade', a television revue devised by Bower, broadcast 20 Mar '37, w Hermione Baddeley, Valerie Hobson and Cyril Ritchard, which - remarkably - included an original sketch by Wyndham Lewis
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All of which makes for a very satisfying Chapter 5 footnote.
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Yet backdrop is elaborate and might have also been used for something else. Ideas? And can anyone identify this score?
Film is at youtu.be/czOis6Iiglk
(with mistaken identification)
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... that didn't seem right, not least as this isn't danced, as Ashton's work is, to one of Debussy's Arabesques.
And lo, WAC has a file with a note by Bower confirming that Anthony Tudor choreographed a new dance for Ms Fonteyn for the filming. Result.
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Today's tiny research triumph - still is 17-year-old #MargotFonteyn performing a solo in BBC Television Demonstration Film, shot by Dallas Bower in 1937 and frequently reproduced.
This is conventionally identified as 'First Arabesque' choreographed by Frederick Ashton, but...
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Why don't we recognise the prior claim of Baird's demonstrations of television at Selfridges and Whiteley's in March/April 1925?
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#OTD in 1926.
#JohnLogieBaird demonstrated his television apparatus (Televisor) in front of 40 members of the #RoyalInstitution @Ri_Science
@jamie_medhurst @kaleidoscopetv @Illuminations @Yourallypally @transdiffusion @BBCArchive #televisionhistory
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'The problems of the present are genuinely novel, and require not so much growing the British economy as transforming it.'
Excellent - and so important - from
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Wonderful, inspirational thread
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It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do.
We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal.
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Great thread from with lots of exciting developments; very much looking forward to A New Power, curated by Geoffrey Batchen, and associated symposium which has a stellar line-up of speakers
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/mar23/a-
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Ten months ago, I started a new job. It’s been pretty mad because this whole time we’ve been working on THINGS
This Spring, the Bodliean Library is celebrating a whole season of photography!!!
Exhibitions! Lectures! Workshops! Photographs! stuff! Let me explain… 
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'With Brexit’s promises in tatters and an administration mired in panic and decay, Conservatism has reached the point of being all about its prejudices and paranoia.'
Spot-on from
Cup of tea, a museum, the occult, and theatre. What’s not to like? Forest Hill next stop. Much recommended thanks
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Have spent time this week w absolutely exceptional Blu-ray of 'Kuhle Wampe', 1932, w deeply informed + exemplary audio commentary and a fascinating selection of '30s documentaries - a great example of the strengths of physical media
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Hard agree. Tweetdeck makes all the other nonsense bearable.
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Sad news - a brilliant cinematographer
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Very sorry to have to share that Cinematography legend and former @NFTSFilmTV Head of Department Brian Tufano has died. He shot so many amazing films and did so much to champion new talent, in particular female DPs. We loved him and will REALLY miss him.
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Design Department Prop Book compiled by Property Master Frank Holland.
#AlgernonBlackwood's chair is No. 33, & is that #joanmiller's chair used in "Picture Page" at No. 15?
#DesmondCampbellArchive.
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“As Tottenham forlornly tried to feel their way into a game that had started without them, the stench of gilded dysfunction poured out of every orifice.”
Not sure we deserve sports writing of the quality serves up time and time again
Enfin!
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So ’s considered view on empire is out. An interesting read, which makes a lot of things I didn’t understand before about the conservative defence of empire clear 1/x
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Wishing our wonderful Artistic Director @SirMattBourne a beautiful birthday!
Head to our instagram stories for a trip down memory lane 
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Join us in the birthday wishes in the comments below and make sure to have boogie for Bourne today! 
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Join us in the birthday wishes in the comments below and make sure to have boogie for Bourne today! 
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Terrible situation, wonderful thread.
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Another shitty night. One of the worst. I went to sleep at eight o’clock after taking my medication and by one o’clock I was wide awake. Not only that, my head had become jammed down the side of the bed.
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After #JenniferCoolidge knock-out speech last night (it's all over social media), this is a lovely profile of her by (but note, if you haven't seen the end of #WhiteLotus there are spoilers)
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Already looking forward to this...
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CFP! Designs on Television: Production Design and Television Aesthetics, a @uniofbrighton / CREAM, @UniWestminster conference (in Brighton on 27-28/07)
Find out more: cream.ac.uk/events/cfp-des
Deadline: 31/01/2023 #callforpapers
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#WatchontheRhine is exceptional - an immaculately rendered, perfectly pitched revival by of Lilian Hellman's classic from 1941 with profound relevance to day
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'The logical corollary of [his] views... would be a personal republicanism, but... that is not the path he takes: “My problem,” he writes, “has never been with the concept of monarchy.” What he shows, though – ...intentionally or not – is that the monarchy makes fools of us all.'
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Photographs from a local OB on 26th May 1937, showing the BBC Coach (from #BroadcastingHouse), as well as OB Unit, Emitron camera and intrigued crowd.
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Excellent! Do you know when Campbell introduced these?
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Desmond Campbell's design for studio lighting - called "Camolights". Construction & tests shots.
It gave depth to the television image.
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