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Television Newsreel30/07/1948Gallery: Broadcasting the 1948 Olympics

How the BBC televised the Games.

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A transmission of the 1948 Olympic Games is closely observed

BBC staff members crowd around the monitors during an afternoon session.

  • The BBC Broadcasting Centre for the 1948 Olympics
  • The entrance to the Broadcasting Centre at the Palace of Arts, Wembley
  • Cutting edge: CPS (Cathode Potential Stabilisation) Emitron cameras
  • A transmission of the 1948 Olympic Games is closely observed
  • Two dual-speed recorders
  • Telephone booths with acoustic hoods at the BBC Broadcasting Centre, Wembley
  • A busy time at the telephone booths
  • Engineers in the control room of BBC Broadcasting Centre, Wembley
  • An engineer uses identification reproducers in the BBC Broadcasting Centre
  • Commentators sit alongside the latest CPS (Cathode Potential Stabilisation) Emitron camera
  • Deep concentration in the radio correspondents' room
  • Down to the wire: studying a photo-finish
  • The EMI mobile television control room
  • At the watering hole
  • In the Empire Stadium commentary box
  • The BBC's Jack Crump, Pat Landsberg and Ian Orr-Ewing
  • A producer controls the change-overs from one TV camera to another

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