BBC Television Interference Suppression Demonstration Film

Description

The BBC Suppressor Film, made in the early 1950s by the BBC on behalf of the trade association BREMA, illustrated how fitting a suppressor to a car's ignition system eliminated the interference menace on television screens. Every location used in the film were all in north-west London, presumably for the convenience of a film unit based at Alexandra Palace, and few have changed much in the last forty-something years. Opening shot -- Heath Street, Hampstead Services lorry -- Stoneyfield Lane Scammel Scarab -- East End Road (cottages now demolished) GPO mail van -- emerging from Vivian way into Deansway Triumph Renown -- Hale Lane Standard Vanguard -- West Heath Road Electrical shop -- corner of Edgwarebury Lane and Station Road, Edgware Austin car, passing modern flats -- Belvedere Court, Lyttleton Road, Barnet By-pass The identity of the electrical shop at 1-3 Edgwarebury Lane, has also been identified - it's now a dry cleaner's shop but in those days it was Norwest Services Ltd (telephone STOnegrove 6655). This film footage is from Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future

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apts, simon, vaughan, interference, suppression, alexandra, palace, bbc, television, history, ally, pally

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