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Birth of TV

Leslie Mitchell announced the official opening of the first high-definition public television service in the world an 2 November 1936. Forty years later, from the same studio at Alexandra Palace, he traced the origins of television from the beginning of the 20th century to the first outside broadcast - the Coronation of George VI in May 1937.
Original Transmission: Monday 1 November, 1976, 21.25, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE.

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1 hour, 28 minutes