These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
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TVTest Card
BBC Test card G is often called the electronic test card. It can only be seen as a picture on the television screen and does not exist as a card at all, the picture is generated entirely in electronic circuits. The patterns and shapes each have a special significance for television engineers.
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1960s, tv and radio, images
TV Test Card F
BBC Test card G is often called the electronic test card. It can only be seen as a picture on the television screen and does not exist as a card at all, the picture is generated entirely in electronic circuits. The patterns and shapes each have a special significance for television engineers.
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Una Stubbs
Una Stubbs
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Valerie Singleton
Valerie Singleton - star of the popular 'Blue Peter' programme, from 1964.
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Vision On
Tony Hart and Pat Keysell, the presenters of Vision On - a programme for deaf and hearing children featuring art, mime, sketches, music and animations.
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Watch With Mother
Vera McKechnie with Sossidge who stands on the picture book, from 'Watch With Mother'
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Weather Man 1
Jack Armstrong, one of the team of weatherman from the Meteorological office.
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Weather Man
Bert Foord, one of the team of weathermen from the meteorological office.
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Dennis Waterman as 'William'
Dennis Waterman as William, adapted from the stories by Richmal Crompton, from 1962
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Z Cars
Joseph Brady as P.C. Jock Weir and Brian Blessed as P.C. Fancy Smith- the crew of Z Victor 1 in 'Z Cars'.
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1960s, tv and radio, images
Isaac Stern
American Violinist Isaac Stern, 1961
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1960s, music, images
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin plays Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1, 1961
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1960s, music, images
