John Baird Describes First Television Apparatus at Kensington Museum

Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

413

Date Released

13 Dec 1937

Length of issue (in feet)

776

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Thirty Five Killed in Scottish Rail Disaster at Castlecary
2. 2John Baird Describes First Television Apparatus at Kensington Museum
3. 3Fred Snite Interviewed While in His "Iron Lung"
4. 4Roving Camera Reports: Sir Francis Acland Marries Miss C Dudley
5. 5Roving Camera Reports: Bombers Mass Formation Flight in Virginia
6. 6Roving Camera Reports: King and Queen of Denmark in London
7. 7Roving Camera Reports: Ernst Henne Breaks Twelve Motor Cycle Records at Munich
8. 8Lonsdale Handicap Steeplechase at Hurst Park Won by "Battleship"
9. 9King George VI Tours Aircraft Factories
10. 10Guns Fired at the Tower of London on Anniversary of Proclamation of George VI
11. *Czech Clergy in Gas Mask Drill
12. *Feminine Fire Brigade in Lutina

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 10

Summary

Including Crystal Palace fire and television in aeroplane.

Keywords

Mass media; Aviation; Fires; Communications; Science and technology; Accidents and disasters; Inventions and discoveries; Television

Locations

London; England

Length of story (in feet)

97

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