This Is The BBC has been uploaded to the Alexandra Palace Television Society’s YouTube Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K37_naDSEA

An impression of twenty-four hours of an imaginary day in the life of the BBC.  The sound track consists entirely of the announcements,  programme music and the voices of artists and commentators and technical staff.

Transmitted on the opening night of BBC Television Centre.

Producer: Richard Cawston

Transmitted:  29th June 1960


This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.


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You would be surprised Mike at the things people say to some of the videos I post on our YouTube Channel!  

People seem to forget that we are a society - we don't have staff, a computer network, we don't have premises, we are not a charity, and have no funding!  We are a society of former BBC employees (myself being the exception), who have a passion in their career and want to ensure that future generations have an accurate and detailed history of how things were - not necessarily the official version - but how it actually was!

Sorry if that sounds like I'm sounding off, but we rely on donations and being able to generate a little income by making our archive available for researchers.  People don't realise this when they post comments on our YouTube channel.  Such as demands as wanting a re-rendering of 4:3 to 16:9. !

As with most archives, it is a passion!