Disc 2: CDROM content

/Audio/  TOTAL AUDIO CONTENT (8h32m23s)


AudioArchive.txt—explanatory text (all files MP3 compressed speech at 32kbps)

• 0001-Astell-Fletcher.mp3 (46m29s)
  Betty Astell, one of the stars of the 30-line era, with her husband, Cyril Fletcher, who first appeared on the BBC high-definition service in the late 1930s.
   
• 0009-1a-DRCampbell.mp3 (32m10s)
  0009-1b-DRCampbell.mp3 (30m38s)
  0009-2-DRCampbell.mp3 (48m48s)
  Desmond Campbell, who transitioned with Bridgewater from the Baird Company to the BBC, becoming ‘the father of television lighting’
   
• 0031-1a-JDPercy.mp3 (29m54s)
  0031-1b-JDPercy.mp3 (30m09s)
  0031-2a-JDPercy.mp3 (34m23s)
  Jim Percy, known as ‘Young Percy’, worked with Baird from 1928.
   
• 0048-1a-THBridgewater.mp3 (31m20s)
  0048-1b-THBridgewater.mp3 (29m16s)
  0048-2a-THBridgewater.mp3 (12m17s)
  0048-2b-THBridgewater.mp3 (30m39s)
  0048-3a-THBridgewater.mp3 (28m00s)
  0048-3b-THBridgewater.mp3 (34m19s)
  0048-4a-THBridgewater.mp3 (31m31s)
  0048-4b-THBridgewater.mp3 (31m04s)
  Thornton H (Tony) Bridgewater, who joined the Baird Company in 1930, then transitioned to the BBC in 1932, eventually rising to Chief Engineer, BBC prior to his retirement in 1968.
   
• Neil Campbell’s tape of his father describing Baird’s labs in Long Acre in Summer of 1930:
  DRCampbell-Summer1930.mp3 (26m27s)
   
• Unknown origin, assumed RTS copyright:
  ParrIntro.mp3 (4m50s)
  Geoffrey Parr introducing a Phonovision record.
   
• A CD-quality MP3 transcription of Lance Sieveking's disc of Carlos Gardel El Carretero used in July 1930 in The Man with the Flower in his Mouth.
  Gardel-ELCARRETERO.MP3 (3m02s)

/Video/  TOTAL VIDEO CONTENT (52m)  (All MPEG-1 AVIs 25fps high bit-rate clips.)

• Baird’s Phonovision recordings (audio is the original vision signal) (total=17m16s)
  SWT515-4  20th Sep 1927 Stookie Bill
  RWT620-4  10th Jan 1928 Wally Fowlkes
  RWT620-6  10th Jan 1928 Wally Fowlkes
  RWT620-11  10th Jan 1928 Wally Fowlkes
  RWT115-3  28th Mar 1928 Mabel Pounsford
   
• Phonostudio  (animation) (1m10s)
   
• "Looking In"  21 Apr 1933   BBC (silent). The world’s first TV revue (3m39s)
   
• The Marcus Games Collection (silent)
  W01 unknown content (1m12s)
  W02 unknown content (1m01s)
  W0308 Betty Bolton singing (1m22s)
  W04 woman singing (44s)
  W05 man singing (1m11s)
  W060710 woman singing (2m59s)
   
• MRAD (silent) 1934-35 (4m10s)
  Both sides of the Major Radiovision disc partly-processed together with fully processed stills of the same material
   
• TMWTFIHM (9m45s)
  1967 ILEA re-make of Pirandello’s The Man with the Flower in his Mouth (extracts)
   
• SplitScreen (9m47s)
  extract from Video on Vinyl: Then and Now on the 54th episode of Split Screen aired on New York cable TV in 2000. © IFC, 2000
   

/PDF/

• The documentary transcript of "The Dawn of Television Remembered" (US & A4 printable)
• two on-screen read-only versions of Bruce Norman’s 1984 book, Here’s Looking at You and
• Don McLean’s original 1985 article on the restoration of Phonovision courtesy of the Royal Television Society

all as Adobe Acrobat PDFs (Limited functionality as required by copyright holders).

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