Photograph of a title card for the 1948 Olympic Games

Made:: 1948 in London

Science Museum Group/A C K Wade
© A C K Wade (Photographs) Ltd

Photograph of a television receiver showing the title card for the 1948 Olympic Games, taken by A C K Wade (Photographs) Limited.

Caption on the verso reads: An untouched photograph from the end of a receiver showing the caption radiated by the B.B.C before the start of each transmission from Wembley of the 1948 Olympiad. The camera used was the Emitron O.P.S.

Details

Category:: Television

Object Number:: 2007-5001/71/5

type:: photograph

taxonomy:

visual and verbal communication

credit:: EMI Group Archive Trust

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