Article outlining developments in television technology.
Date: Published in 1928.
Publication: 'Television', No 6, Pages 9-10, 26.
The editor of the world's first television journal, Alfred Dinsdale, was present at John Logie Baird's demonstrations of television in July 1928. He therefore feels able to write with some authority about the three-colour process Baird used to transmit images 'in their natural colours'.
Television is now called 'television by daylight and television in colours', he states. He describes in detail the apparatus Baird used in these demonstrations and some of the problems the inventor had to overcome.
The colour transmission demonstrations were amazingly vivid, he says, particularly where images of flowers and fruit were being received.
Several photographs accompany the article, with Baird included in them. In one picture he is demonstrating daylight television transmitter to Scottish singer and actor Jack Buchanan. Another photograph shows Buchanan posing for transmission in front of the daylight transmitter.
Jack Buchanan was an old friend of Baird's from school days in Helensburgh. By the late 1920s he was one of the popular stars of the day, and contributed funds to help Baird's work.
The article was published in August 1928.