4:30 "Let me go you dirty wop!" ... Wow, I guess no one worried about words like that back then, especially in a country that had just defeated Italy in a war.
Typical BBC Television Service schedule for Wednesday 28th August 1946 - that is 72 years to this day, as I type this on Tuesday 28th August 2018: 11.00am until 12.10pm - Demonstration Film, specially designed to demonstrate television to shoppers in the high street during the mid morning. 3.00pm - Tour of the Zoo, Freddy Grisewood assists viewers 3.30pm until 4.00pm - Sidney Lipton and his orchestra perform for the viewers 8.30pm - Tour of the Zoo, same programme line up which aired at 3.00pm 8.45pm - Entre Nous, an intimate revue with Avril Angers, Mario Lorenzi and more 9.15pm - Guest Night - A G Street invites well know sports personalities to his home 9.40pm - Cartoon Film 9.45pm - Composer at the Piano - Vivian Ellis 10.00pm - The News in sound only 10.10pm - Closedown So only 3 hours, 50 minutes of television that day.
If I was the editor of the BBC Television Service in 1946, I’d have a programme of the latest American jazz and R&B releases , an experimental drama series (think Eastenders where the archetypes are resolved, gone avant garde), maybe an arts magazine programme, a magazine series about Forteana, The Goons having their own series, and a sitcom set in a space program , about a bureaucracy gone mad.
@@chrishenniker5944 Nice idea, but in 1946 there was big obstacles in the way for those ideas. In 1946 television was limited to a maximum of just around 3 hours of television per day so not much room for a lot of shows. Next, they did start a soap opera drama series called The Grove Family in 1954. American style shows were not enjoyed by the BBC management who detested the increase in American style programmes.
@@chrishenniker5944 There was always a pompous anti American attitude among some at the BBC as they felt American broadcasting was too crude and crass for the British. They felt the BBC should be more refined. This was the attitude in 1955 when commercial television arrived in Britain. The conservative government at the time was divided over whether it should have been launched. They felt it would all be game shows, cheap films etc, which ITV actually did. Funnily enough when ITV launched and did consist of a very American style schedule, it trashed the BBC in the ratings, with the BBC seeing nearly 70% of their available audience going to ITV.
They censored that word on U.S. TV well into the 1960s, but they allowed phrases like "Go to the devil." or any use of "heck" or "aich eee double toothpicks". I just never understood why any of those were less offensive than "hell". Or why "hell" was offensive in the first place..
@@pcno2832 Ricky and Lucy, Rob and Laura had seperate beds, which makes the question of where Little Ricky and Robbie came from a thing to be pondered...
note how the concept of entertainment was "substantially yankee" shaped: bluesy , tip-tap, gangsta movies with italiano > mafioso with dressed chick stereotype theme. WWII frozen & delayed time & culture development, so '46 show schedule was a '39 revival, cheap, mawkish, extremely commercial, prone to US entertainment pattern.
Quite a good tap dancing routine, liked the music and those ladies, interesting well thought out drama for the period, but this is now 2020, and I would be 79 if born in 1941, if they could have seen the mess now in 2020 at the bbc of it’s own making, the service should have used a crystal ball instead.
A lot of television was shot, edited or distributed on film for many decades. Obviously TV viewers were seeing this in much lower quality back in 1946: ruclips.net/video/rVpABCxiDaU/видео.html .
Well, that was strange...the oddest part being the bad guy repeatedly playing the organ - hunh?? And this was supposedly what the BBC was going to broadcast? Copies of American B-movies? Certainly not what they were doing later! Despite the introduction that this was what a television drama would look like, in reality live TV could never have had the multiple camera angles seen here, nor the crisp 35mm movie film image.
A lot of television was shot on film over the decades, including sometimes 35mm. Though indeed it didn't look this good on TV screens at the time: ruclips.net/video/rVpABCxiDaU/видео.html .
Actually, because this seems to be a kind of test film for TV technicians and repair people, it's probably made to a higher standard than what they intended to present every day to viewers. I know that early test recordings for radio were usually done to a higher standard, with a better quality of performer, for the purposes of allowing finer technical adjustments to be made in sound, etc., for broadcasting. It made for a better testing tool to get ready for going "live".
I know. It's like they dusted off some cheerful dancehall guy and dubbed him Fred Astaire. The intimacy of the small screen makes it look a bit foolish. Without that big stage-set sweep of camera, it goes a bit flat. The sequined dancing girls are pretty and energetic enough, but their legs look so thin to me, making them seem underfed---possibly reflecting the lousy food rations the Brits had to eat! And the lady who reminds me just a bit of Billie Holiday (for looks)----anybody know her name?
Hello, 7 years from the future. I don't know how good your history is dear-heart but a war ended the year before so looking underweight was quite the norm.
The food may not have been exciting, but the diet was precisely calculated to keep people healthy - healthier than they had ever been before or since. They were not carrying the excess weight which everyone in the 'deveoped' world does these days. Obesity is increasingly the norm; in Britain and even moree so in the USA.
4:30 "Let me go you dirty wop!" ... Wow, I guess no one worried about words like that back then, especially in a country that had just defeated Italy in a war.
I was called a "wop" only once in my life. 1/2 Spanish.
Well said. People should thank their lucky stars that they can see it at all instead of picking holes in everything.
wonderful postings.despite some negative carping and unrealistic critism.
Quite fascinating.
Typical BBC Television Service schedule for Wednesday 28th August 1946 - that is 72 years to this day, as I type this on Tuesday 28th August 2018:
11.00am until 12.10pm - Demonstration Film, specially designed to demonstrate television to shoppers in the high street during the mid morning.
3.00pm - Tour of the Zoo, Freddy Grisewood assists viewers
3.30pm until 4.00pm - Sidney Lipton and his orchestra perform for the viewers
8.30pm - Tour of the Zoo, same programme line up which aired at 3.00pm
8.45pm - Entre Nous, an intimate revue with Avril Angers, Mario Lorenzi and more
9.15pm - Guest Night - A G Street invites well know sports personalities to his home
9.40pm - Cartoon Film
9.45pm - Composer at the Piano - Vivian Ellis
10.00pm - The News in sound only
10.10pm - Closedown
So only 3 hours, 50 minutes of television that day.
If I was the editor of the BBC Television Service in 1946, I’d have a programme of the latest American jazz and R&B releases , an experimental drama series (think Eastenders where the archetypes are resolved, gone avant garde), maybe an arts magazine programme, a magazine series about Forteana, The Goons having their own series, and a sitcom set in a space program , about a bureaucracy gone mad.
@@chrishenniker5944 Nice idea, but in 1946 there was big obstacles in the way for those ideas. In 1946 television was limited to a maximum of just around 3 hours of television per day so not much room for a lot of shows. Next, they did start a soap opera drama series called The Grove Family in 1954. American style shows were not enjoyed by the BBC management who detested the increase in American style programmes.
@@johnking5174 Why did bbc management hate American stuff? I’d have made the bbc the most cutting edge broadcaster in the world.
@@chrishenniker5944 There was always a pompous anti American attitude among some at the BBC as they felt American broadcasting was too crude and crass for the British. They felt the BBC should be more refined. This was the attitude in 1955 when commercial television arrived in Britain. The conservative government at the time was divided over whether it should have been launched. They felt it would all be game shows, cheap films etc, which ITV actually did. Funnily enough when ITV launched and did consist of a very American style schedule, it trashed the BBC in the ratings, with the BBC seeing nearly 70% of their available audience going to ITV.
@@johnking5174 There’s a clip on here of a 1950s itv show and it looks like a fifties version of The Word.
"Like hell I will." Goodness.
They censored that word on U.S. TV well into the 1960s, but they allowed phrases like "Go to the devil." or any use of "heck" or "aich eee double toothpicks". I just never understood why any of those were less offensive than "hell". Or why "hell" was offensive in the first place..
@@pcno2832 Ricky and Lucy, Rob and Laura had seperate beds, which makes the question of where Little Ricky and Robbie came from a thing to be pondered...
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note how the concept of entertainment was "substantially yankee" shaped: bluesy , tip-tap, gangsta movies with italiano > mafioso with dressed chick stereotype theme. WWII frozen & delayed time & culture development, so '46 show schedule was a '39 revival, cheap, mawkish, extremely commercial, prone to US entertainment pattern.
4:25>Lauren Bacall hairdo
I wonder if any of the actors are American or Canadian.
como se llama el bailarìn, alguien sabe?
Quite a good tap dancing routine, liked the music and those ladies, interesting well thought out drama for the period, but this is now 2020, and I would be 79 if born in 1941, if they could have seen the mess now in 2020 at the bbc of it’s own making, the service should have used a crystal ball instead.
This has nothing to do with real Television. It´s 35 mm film!
A lot of television was shot, edited or distributed on film for many decades. Obviously TV viewers were seeing this in much lower quality back in 1946: ruclips.net/video/rVpABCxiDaU/видео.html .
Well, that was strange...the oddest part being the bad guy repeatedly playing the organ - hunh??
And this was supposedly what the BBC was going to broadcast? Copies of American B-movies? Certainly not what they were doing later!
Despite the introduction that this was what a television drama would look like, in reality live TV could never have had the multiple camera angles seen here, nor the crisp 35mm movie film image.
A lot of television was shot on film over the decades, including sometimes 35mm. Though indeed it didn't look this good on TV screens at the time: ruclips.net/video/rVpABCxiDaU/видео.html .
Actually, because this seems to be a kind of test film for TV technicians and repair people, it's probably made to a higher standard than what they intended to present every day to viewers. I know that early test recordings for radio were usually done to a higher standard, with a better quality of performer, for the purposes of allowing finer technical adjustments to be made in sound, etc., for broadcasting. It made for a better testing tool to get ready for going "live".
I know. It's like they dusted off some cheerful dancehall guy and dubbed him Fred Astaire. The intimacy of the small screen makes it look a bit foolish. Without that big stage-set sweep of camera, it goes a bit flat. The sequined dancing girls are pretty and energetic enough, but their legs look so thin to me, making them seem underfed---possibly reflecting the lousy food rations the Brits had to eat!
And the lady who reminds me just a bit of Billie Holiday (for looks)----anybody know her name?
Hello, 7 years from the future. I don't know how good your history is dear-heart but a war ended the year before so looking underweight was quite the norm.
The food may not have been exciting, but the diet was precisely calculated to keep people healthy - healthier than they had ever been before or since. They were not carrying the excess weight which everyone in the 'deveoped' world does these days. Obesity is increasingly the norm; in Britain and even moree so in the USA.
es Fred astaire?
The announcer was Jasmin Bligh.