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FIRST BIG PERFORMANCE (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 29th October. The Alexandra Palace television staff is practising assiduously to attain as near perfection as present conditions allow by the time its first big performance is staged. This will be the impressive Cenotaph service on Armistice Day next month, which the King will attend, and which will retain all the customary ritual. Though the hope is to achieve a successful direct television transmission from Whitehall, as a precautionary measure a film of the proceedings will be rushed as quickly as possible to the pioneer television station at the Alexandra Palace by way of a supplementary record. At the same time our manufacturers are busy with the problem of the reasonably cheap television set, and it is possible that there may be one on the market in time for 11th November. But the difficulties in the way of sight-broad-casting are infinitely greater than those so successfully surmounted in sound-transmission.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 10
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161CENOTAPH TELEVISION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 10
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