Synopsis
Robin Hood starring Patrick Troughton (BBC-tv, 1953) British Television drama. Extracts from The Abbot of St Marys, episode 2 of a 6-part serial, captured on film during a live transmission in 1953. A very rare (but incomplete) telerecording from 1953, in which the output from an electronic studio camera was captured on film, in an early BBC experiment with the process of recording a live electronic image on film for re-broadcasting later. Almost no television studio footage exists from this period. And this is the earliest known television recording of actor Patrick Troughton. It is thought to be the earliest surviving live broadcast footage from the era of live tv. A BBC technician rescued this film footage from the bin. It is the only surviving video material from this serial. The experiment was a partial failure on this occasion, as a recording fault caused the middle part of the half-hour programme to be lost, giving an incomplete recording of the episode, so that the resulting film was not suitable for repeating on tv. The few minutes of captured footage, being incomplete, was discarded. Subsequent experiments eventually led to the successful development of the so-called 'telerecording' process, and by the mid-1950s it was possible, although expensive, to save on film a tv broadcast from the output of a 405-line electronic tv camera, albeit with low definition. The 405-line picture structure is clearly visible on this early test of the process. The problem of low…
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Details
- Running time
- 8 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- telerecording
- Patrick Troughton