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Sixth World Day for Audiovisual Heritage | Politics

earthtimes.org 27 Oct '12, 1pm

The Sixth World Day for Audiovisual Heritage | Politics | The Earth Times via @Earth_Times #AVTweeps #AVNews

Projector Image ; Credit: © Shutterstock It was in 1895 that Louis Lumier presented the world's first public film show using his Cinematograph and following that, developments were swift. Other inventors were working on similar project at the same time and early experiments were even made to film in colour, with the first recorded example dating from 1902. Meanwhile, a number of experiments were taking place to devise a means of transmitting pictures using radio waves and within a little more than 25 years the first black and white television broadcast was made by the BBC in 1929. Colour TV had to wait another 25 years or so, but the first colour TV was broadcast in the United States in 1953. All these audiovisual developments had taken place within a space of 60 years and the next 60 years up until the present day have seen further astonishing developments in world and pe...

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@CompassAV » 02 Nov '12, 2am
October 27th was "World Day for Audiovisual Heritage." (a lot has happened in the AV world over the past 100+ years!): [link]
@CraigMacCormack » 31 Oct '12, 1pm
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@NorthEastFilm » 29 Oct '12, 9am
RT @GrahamRelton: Sixth World Day for Audiovisual Heritage [link] - its why work of @yorkshirefilm & @northeastfilm is so important!
@GrahamRelton » 27 Oct '12, 7pm
Sixth World Day for Audiovisual Heritage [link] - its why work of @yorkshirefilm & @northeastfilm is so important!
@ronmann » 27 Oct '12, 4pm
UNESCO's "World Day for Audiovisual Heritage" - right on ! [link]
@Earth_Times » 27 Oct '12, 3pm
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage - [link] _ #AudiovisualHeritage @earthtimes @UN #worlddayforaudiovisualheritage
@PortlandGreener » 27 Oct '12, 3pm
#earthtimes The Sixth World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Sound recordings and moving images of all kinds contai... [link]
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