Post by Simon Vaughan - Archivist APTS on Apr 13, 2010 22:02:34 GMT
It Is Midnight Dr Schweitzer has been uploaded to YouTube by the Alexandra Palace Television Society Archive.
The action takes place at night at Dr. Schweitzer’s hospital at Lambaréné, in Gabon, French Equatorial Africa. The time: August 2, 1914, the twenty-four hours before the outbreak of the first world war.
This play was transmitted on Thursday 26th February 1953 and was telerecorded ‘as live’. This gives it the honour of being the oldest surviving recorded televisoin drama held at the BBC Film & Video Library.
All eleven parts have been placed on a playlist and can be viewed here www.youtube.com/user/aptsarchive#grid/user/B3076B52593517CC
The action takes place at night at Dr. Schweitzer’s hospital at Lambaréné, in Gabon, French Equatorial Africa. The time: August 2, 1914, the twenty-four hours before the outbreak of the first world war.
This play was transmitted on Thursday 26th February 1953 and was telerecorded ‘as live’. This gives it the honour of being the oldest surviving recorded televisoin drama held at the BBC Film & Video Library.
All eleven parts have been placed on a playlist and can be viewed here www.youtube.com/user/aptsarchive#grid/user/B3076B52593517CC
