The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
- Summary
- BBC Television production of Luigi Pirandello’s The Man with the Flower in his Mouth, about which John Wyver writes as follows: ‘This offering was part of John Logie Baird’s experimental television service, and although there are other contenders for the title of "first television drama", it does seem to be the earliest production of an existing play’ (source: http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/100-television-stage-plays-1-1930-1939).
- Theatre play
- The Man with the Flower in his Mouth [L’uomo dal fiore in bocca] by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 14 July 1930
- Time
- 3.30pm (22 mins)
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC; Baird Studios
Credits
- Producer
- Lance Sieveking
- Playwright
- Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
- Scenic Artist
- C. R. W. Nevinson
- Assistant Producer
- Sydney A. Moseley
- Cast
Earle Grey The Man, a role which was to have been played by Val Gielgud who was ill on the day Lionel Millard The Customer Gladys Young The Woman
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Italian drama
Print sources
- Title
- 100 television stage plays: [1] 1930-1939 (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/100-television-stage-plays-1-1930-1939, published 22 August 2011
- Title
- Adventure in Vision: The First Twenty-Five Years of Television (Book)
- Author/creator
- John Swift (Author)
- Reference
- London: John Lehmann, 1950
- Linking notes
- pp. 46-47, and four images facing p. 40
- Title
- Baird Versus the BBC (Website)
- Author/creator
- Richard G. Elen (Author)
- Reference
- http://www.transdiffusion.org/tv/baird/bairdvbbc, accessed 19 November 2012
- Title
- British television’s first play, 81 years ago today (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/british-televisions-first-play-81-years-ago-today, published 14 July 2011
- Title
- First Television Play: The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Observer, 6 July 1930, p. 10
- Title
- Radio Times, 24 July 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- discussed in an article on p. 4
- Title
- Television’s very first drama (review) (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- John Wyver (Author)
- Reference
- http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/index.cfm?start=1&news_id=747, published 14 July 2011
- Title
- The First Play by Television: BBC and Baird Experiment (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 15 July 1930, p. 12
- Title
- The Man with the Flower in his Mouth - All About the First Ever TV Play (Blog article)
- Author/creator
- Derek Brady (Author)
- Reference
- http://www.tech-ops.co.uk/page142.html, accessed 19 November 2012
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