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In his 1996 autobiography "A Reporter's Life", Walter Cronkite relates
the story of American television's "broadcast" of the coronation of
Elizabeth II in 1953.
These were the days before videotape and coaxial cable. CBS in London
could use kinescope (filming of live TV) to record the live BBC
television broadcast of the day's pomp and circumstance. But the
films of the day-long ceremonies had to be developed, edited, and
flown across the Atlantic to be shown in the USA.
Excerpt, filmed in color by BBC, but obviously broadcast in black and
white for British television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inKSvLk7kiI
So CBS chartered a Boeing Stratocruiser, removed seats and installed
film editing equipment, to prepare the films for broadcast during the
14 hour flight to Boston, for broadcast as a "documentary" of the
entire coronation day, to be shown later in the week. This
documentary was quite a production, and is still available for
purchase in the USA.
But Cronkite's London news division was also to give a "concise"
version of the coronation, preferably to be broadcast on the same day
as it happened. So they made their own films of the ceremonies,
developed them, and loaded them into a RAF Canberra for the five hour
flight to Labrador. There a US P-51 picked them up and delivered them
to Logan in Boston for the CBS evening broadcast.
Canberra:
View attachment 46748
The films of this concise version were in numbered containers, so they
could be shown in order without preview. But the P-51 pilot had
removed them from the cans to save space - and they arrived with no ID
at all.
They arrived in Boston just minutes before the evening news, and by
pure luck the kinescope operator chose the can with the actual
coronation at Westminster Abbey. The CBS crew breathed a bit easier,
and at the end of that first reel, announced (on live broadcast) "Now
that you've seen the coronation, we'll show all that preceded it
during the day."
Tom M.
OK - back to my cave.
the story of American television's "broadcast" of the coronation of
Elizabeth II in 1953.
These were the days before videotape and coaxial cable. CBS in London
could use kinescope (filming of live TV) to record the live BBC
television broadcast of the day's pomp and circumstance. But the
films of the day-long ceremonies had to be developed, edited, and
flown across the Atlantic to be shown in the USA.
Excerpt, filmed in color by BBC, but obviously broadcast in black and
white for British television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inKSvLk7kiI
So CBS chartered a Boeing Stratocruiser, removed seats and installed
film editing equipment, to prepare the films for broadcast during the
14 hour flight to Boston, for broadcast as a "documentary" of the
entire coronation day, to be shown later in the week. This
documentary was quite a production, and is still available for
purchase in the USA.
But Cronkite's London news division was also to give a "concise"
version of the coronation, preferably to be broadcast on the same day
as it happened. So they made their own films of the ceremonies,
developed them, and loaded them into a RAF Canberra for the five hour
flight to Labrador. There a US P-51 picked them up and delivered them
to Logan in Boston for the CBS evening broadcast.
Canberra:
View attachment 46748
The films of this concise version were in numbered containers, so they
could be shown in order without preview. But the P-51 pilot had
removed them from the cans to save space - and they arrived with no ID
at all.
They arrived in Boston just minutes before the evening news, and by
pure luck the kinescope operator chose the can with the actual
coronation at Westminster Abbey. The CBS crew breathed a bit easier,
and at the end of that first reel, announced (on live broadcast) "Now
that you've seen the coronation, we'll show all that preceded it
during the day."
Tom M.
OK - back to my cave.
