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Description: | Television - World's largest collection
Television receivers, over 1000 sets, includes an important series of pre-war sets and the recently acquired Donald Fleming collection of nearly one hundred North American television receivers.
Television cameras, presented to the Museum by Thames Television, now extensively augmented to cover television broadcasting from the birth of television up to the present day. A similar collection, donated by Sony, covers the start of industrial and educational television. There are also extensive holdings of other items of production equipment, ranging from the 'Clapometer' used on Opportunity Knocks, to the Mellotron sound effects console.
Film machines used to convert film pictures into television including the reverse - machines used for recording television pictures on to film.
A huge collection of technical handbooks and operating manuals. In addition an extensive archive of photographs from the PYE company archive, covering the full range of equipment produced by this major British manufacturer.
The advertising industry collection of over 6000 British television commercials, starting with ITV's first ever advert in 1955 - for Gibbs SR toothpaste, gives us a wonderful insight into technical advances, cultural trends and sexual stereotypes over the last fifty years. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Pictureville
Bradford,
BD1 1NQ | FAX: | 01274 723 155 | Telephone: | 01274 202 030 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1305 | Go to resource |
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