26-11-2016, 10:40 AM
One of the reasons why the EMI team are less well known is that EMI were a notably secretive company who never particulalry sought publicity for their work in creating TV as we know it. Blumlein's wartime death had to be hushed up and a biography was long delayed, partly due to a dishonest potential biographer. Remember that the real money was in making and selling receivers, something that EMI did quite well for a number of years until the 1807 debacle.
Wasn't there a documentary some years ago in which Shoenberg appeared? Or was it a docudrama?
We are pretty well served by the books and other literature. RW Burns' 2 books on TV history and his Blumlein biog are standard reference works. Another Blumlein biog is less accurate but more colourful. Pauls Marshall's PhD thesis (freely downloadable from Manchester Uni) has uncovered new material about the pre 1936 era. It would be good if Norman Green were to write up his EMI history lectures as a monograph or even a book.
Baird is served by a slew of books. Don McLean's "Restoring Baird's Image" is excellent. You rather have to look past the hagiography and especially the writings of Wadell at Strathclyde which are more than slightly strange. Like Tesla, Baird is a man who has been surrounded by myth. In the US Farnsworth is the plucky outsider who challenged the giants and nearly won.
Wasn't there a documentary some years ago in which Shoenberg appeared? Or was it a docudrama?
We are pretty well served by the books and other literature. RW Burns' 2 books on TV history and his Blumlein biog are standard reference works. Another Blumlein biog is less accurate but more colourful. Pauls Marshall's PhD thesis (freely downloadable from Manchester Uni) has uncovered new material about the pre 1936 era. It would be good if Norman Green were to write up his EMI history lectures as a monograph or even a book.
Baird is served by a slew of books. Don McLean's "Restoring Baird's Image" is excellent. You rather have to look past the hagiography and especially the writings of Wadell at Strathclyde which are more than slightly strange. Like Tesla, Baird is a man who has been surrounded by myth. In the US Farnsworth is the plucky outsider who challenged the giants and nearly won.
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