100 years of TV at the British Film Institute

[Mike Watterson]

Baird did a lot to promote TV, but his mechanical system was nothing new and a dead end. There was mechanical colour TV in 1924. Radio Fax news was also in some countries in that era after speech programs in the evening. Baird's big technical contribution was the near-instant hybrid Film & Scan to TV as the problem since 1905 proposal (and why Farnsworth's camera was a failure) was the electronic camera. Baird's film "processed in the camera" to TV went on to be used in spy satellites to avoid the "Ice Station Zebra" scenario which was loosely based on real events.

The 90th anniversary of AP electronic TV is the significant one. Or RCA demos.