CAPTAIN A. G. WEST, of the Baird Television Co., Ltd., gave a very instructive address to the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association at Cardiff on June 26. A summary of this address appears in the ...

In fact, one element of Baird’s system did survive: his ‘flying spot’ process was well-suited to scanning film, so for several decades it became the basis of so-called ‘telecine ...

SCOTS filmmaker Jon S Baird has told of his regret at turning down the chance to direct some of the most successful TV shows of recent years. The Hollywood director revealed he knocked back the cha… ...

The Baird Studio in Alexandra Palace, showing the intermediate film scanner (left), August 1936. ... But as the central technology of television, the Baird system was dead.