Figure 1
TV70 Event at Alexandra Palace, London 2006. Left: Restored 1968 operational Outside Broadcast unit and right: Marconi MkIV image orthicon television camera in use on the day.
Video 1
TV70, 2006. See full video here.
Figure 2
First generation colour TV cameras on show. Left to right: Marconi B3200 3x3” Image Orthicon ‘coffin’ colour camera, camera control units and picture monitors, EMI 204 3x1” vidicon colour camera. Note that the red ‘Dalek’ is correctly reproduced by the ‘coffin’ camera but not the EMI 204. This was the stand of the then National Museum of Film, Photography and Television and I had restored the ‘coffin’ to operational status specifically for the 1999 International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam. Picture: author.
Video 2
The Seekers - Someday, One Day, March 1966. Marconi ‘coffin’ cameras in operation at the London Palladium. One of the cameras used was the example restored by me for the then National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. The original YouTube posting was of much higher quality than the current offering.
Figure 3
Second generation colour television cameras in the UK. Only the PC60 and Marconi MkVII were in use during the first year of colour television, with the EMI 2001 joining late in 1968. Left to right: EMI 2001, Philips PC-60, Marconi MkVII.
Video 3
Vanity Fair BBC Dec 2nd 1967, first BBC drama serial shot in colour. Used Marconi MkVII cameras at BBC Television Centre in London.
Figure 4
‘Southern Television’ Outside Broadcast unit ‘Big Bertha’ inside and out.
Video 4
‘Southern’ in action. Polo: The Cowdray Park Gold Cup 1979 - Southern Television Outside Broadcast, Southern Television 1979, recorded by ‘Big Bertha’.