Magic Rays of Light by John Wyver - 9781839028199

Magic Rays of LightThe Early Years of Television in Britain\nAuthor(s): John Wyver\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: BFI Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781839028199, 978-1839028199\nSynopsis\nOn the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on Londons Frith Street of a seeing by wireless apparatus that he and many others had been working towards, television. In the years that followed, variants of this astonishing device produced programming that was rich, complex and excitingly imaginative. Familiar television genres, including studio drama, quiz shows, variety spectaculars and sports broadcasts, were all fully realised in the 1930s. At the same time, early television was often strikingly different from later domestic broadcasting.\n\nTelevision began with intimate entanglements with interwar cinema, theatre, music and dance. And, despite reaching only tiny audiences, from its beginnings.