1937 in television

1937 in television

The year 1937 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1937.

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Events

*February 6 - The BBC Television Service drops the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system.
*May - Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his "Atlantic Monthly" article, the "Errors of Television".
*March 9 Experimental broadcasting from Shabolovka Ulitsa television center, in Moscow (USSR).
*May 12 - The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of King George VI. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television — filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an 8 mm cine camera. A short section of this footage was used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives.
* May 14 - The BBC broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of "Twelfth Night", the first known instance of a Shakespeare play on television. Among the cast are Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson.
*May 15 - RCA demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the Institute of Radio Engineers convention.
*June 21 - Wimbledon Championships (tennis) first televised by the BBC.
*July 10 - High definition television with 455 lines is first shown in France at the International Exposition, Paris.
*September - High definition television broadcasts are sent from a new 30 kW (peak power) transmitter below the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
*November 9 - Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits television signal of 800 kHz bandwidth on a coaxial cable laid between New York and Philadelphia.
*November 11 - The BBC broadcasts an adaptation of the World War I-set play "Journey's End" by R. C. Sherriff, starring Reginald Tate as Stanhope. Shown in commemoration of Armistice Day, it is the first time that a whole evening's programming has been given over to a single play.
*December 31 - 2,121 television sets have been sold in England.
*CBS announces their efforts to develop television broadcasts.

Debuts

* April 17 - "The Disorderly Room" (UK) premieres on the BBC Television Service (1937 & 1939).
* April 24 - "For The Children" (UK), the BBC's first programme for young children, debuts (1937-1939; 1946-1950).
*April 30 - "Sports Review" (UK), the first regular sports programme, debuts on the BBC (1937-1939).

Television shows

Births

*February 1 - Garrett Morris, actor, comedian, "Saturday Night Live"
*July 12 - Bill Cosby, actor, comedian
*December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress


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