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| The BBC is alive and well and doing good things as ever; and among the latter is the gift of 946 historic items to the National Media Museum in Bradford. | The BBC is alive and well and doing good things as ever; and among the latter is the gift of 946 historic items to the National Media Museum in Bradford. |
| Announced this morning, the huge goody-bag includes a very rare 1930 Blattnerphone with its steel tape to record sound (including Neville Chamberlain's announcement of war in 1939) and a radio disguised a biscuit tin, one of a series dropped by parachute to the French Resistance during the Second World War. | Announced this morning, the huge goody-bag includes a very rare 1930 Blattnerphone with its steel tape to record sound (including Neville Chamberlain's announcement of war in 1939) and a radio disguised a biscuit tin, one of a series dropped by parachute to the French Resistance during the Second World War. |
| The collection is still being sorted and transferred to the museum's safe-keeping, but the first selection of interesting highlights goes on display in Bradford this Wednesday 14 November – 90 years to the day after the BBC's first broadcast. There will also be an online gallery on the museum's website but you can't beat going to see the place for real, and the wider city is well worth a day's exploration at the minimum. | The collection is still being sorted and transferred to the museum's safe-keeping, but the first selection of interesting highlights goes on display in Bradford this Wednesday 14 November – 90 years to the day after the BBC's first broadcast. There will also be an online gallery on the museum's website but you can't beat going to see the place for real, and the wider city is well worth a day's exploration at the minimum. |
| The BBC is extremely good with its archives, both in terms of storage and making them accessible. I had a happy day some years ago researching Richard Dimbleby's famous Panorama April Fool on the Swiss sphaghetti harvest at the written archive centre in Caversham near Reading. As well as plenty of stuff on the spoof (which had the then director general 90-percent fooled until his wife stepped in), they had a great display including eager letters from assorted schoolchildren interested in TV or radio who later became big BBC names. | The BBC is extremely good with its archives, both in terms of storage and making them accessible. I had a happy day some years ago researching Richard Dimbleby's famous Panorama April Fool on the Swiss sphaghetti harvest at the written archive centre in Caversham near Reading. As well as plenty of stuff on the spoof (which had the then director general 90-percent fooled until his wife stepped in), they had a great display including eager letters from assorted schoolchildren interested in TV or radio who later became big BBC names. |
| The National Media Museum goes from strength to strength and its choice as a safe, imaginative, accessible and hugely popular place to show the collection is another fillip. Other items on show from Wednesday include the microphone originally used to capture Big Ben's chimes for the radio hour and the BBC's first high definition TV cameras – made in 1936. For those who follow such things, the museum was used during the Olympics to broadcast the latest version of this, a Japanese invention called Super Hi-Vision Ultra high-definition TV. | The National Media Museum goes from strength to strength and its choice as a safe, imaginative, accessible and hugely popular place to show the collection is another fillip. Other items on show from Wednesday include the microphone originally used to capture Big Ben's chimes for the radio hour and the BBC's first high definition TV cameras – made in 1936. For those who follow such things, the museum was used during the Olympics to broadcast the latest version of this, a Japanese invention called Super Hi-Vision Ultra high-definition TV. |
| Robert Seatter, Head of BBC History, says: | Robert Seatter, Head of BBC History, says: |
| I know how absolutely fascinated audiences are to see the real objects that make broadcasting happen – whether it's that special microphone or the particular prop from a seminal TV show.I hope this donation will enable more people to connect with the history of the BBC, which of course is all our history. | I know how absolutely fascinated audiences are to see the real objects that make broadcasting happen – whether it's that special microphone or the particular prop from a seminal TV show.I hope this donation will enable more people to connect with the history of the BBC, which of course is all our history. |
| Jo Quinton-Tulloch, Head of the National Media Museum, said: | Jo Quinton-Tulloch, Head of the National Media Museum, said: |
| This generous and hugely significant gift will greatly enhance the National Television Collection held by the Museum, making it probably the best of its kind anywhere in the world. It also represents another major landmark in our flourishing partnership with the BBC. | This generous and hugely significant gift will greatly enhance the National Television Collection held by the Museum, making it probably the best of its kind anywhere in the world. It also represents another major landmark in our flourishing partnership with the BBC. |
| Hooray. | Hooray. |
| The launch will also be marked by an event at the NMM's sister museum in London, the Science Museum, when more than 55 BBC radio stations will join Radio Reunited – the first attempt at a simultaneous broadcast by so many parts of Auntie since what was then the British Broadcasting Company was formed in 1922. The Science Museum has part of the original 2LO transmitter which launched the service and that will be in a separate exhibition down there. | The launch will also be marked by an event at the NMM's sister museum in London, the Science Museum, when more than 55 BBC radio stations will join Radio Reunited – the first attempt at a simultaneous broadcast by so many parts of Auntie since what was then the British Broadcasting Company was formed in 1922. The Science Museum has part of the original 2LO transmitter which launched the service and that will be in a separate exhibition down there. |
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