The Queen's Messenger (English Wikipedia)
Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Queen's Messenger" in English language version.
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archive.org
- Kisseloff 1997, p. 11. Kisseloff, Jeff (1997). The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920–1961. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-025265-1.
In 1928, the station received gobs of publicity when it broadcast the first television drama, J. Hartley Manner's 'The Queen's Messenger.'
bairdtelevision.com
- Baird, Iain L.; Baird, Malcolm H.I. "The Play's the Thing: The Man with the Flower in his Mouth". Baird Television. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
The first occurred on 11 September 1928, conducted by General Electric from their Schenectady, NY station – to test Ernst Alexanderson's new 48-line television system. The play was "The Queen's Messenger", a melodramatic piece by London-born J. Hartley Manners. Arguably it was a more adventuresome production in that it used three cameras. Director, Mortimer Stewart, mixed the feeds in a control box. However, only four Octagonal GE receivers were tuned in.
earlytelevision.org
- Early Television Museum. "The Queen's Messenger". Early Television Museum website. Hilliard, Ohio, United States. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
grimeton.info
- "The Development of Television". World Heritage Grimeton. Sweden. July 21, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
The first performance took place on September 11, 1928, and the first transmission was made during the Schenectady station WGY's ordinary TV time at 1:30 PM and another at 11:30 PM.
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- "Television used as vehicle of Drama". The Wilkes-Barre Record provided by Associated Press. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. September 12, 1928. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com
. - "GE Broadcast First Television Drama in 1928". The Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York. March 5, 1950. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com .
- "Television's First Drama". Albany Democrat-Herald. Albany, Oregon. September 25, 1928. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .
The first broadcasting of television drama is pictured here. The drama was "The Queen's Messenger", by J. Hartley Manners and it went through the air from WGY.
- O'Neil, John J. (September 12, 1928). "Radio Play With Television Accompaniment, Out on Air By W G Y, Proves a Success". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .
- ""Sight-Sound" Radio Drama Quite Latest". Journal Gazette provided by International News Service. Mattoon, Illinois. September 12, 1928. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
- "Sight and Sound Radio, Drama is now Possibility". Evening News. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. September 12, 1928. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com .
- "General Electric Engineers Enthusiastic over Test of Invention". Standard Union. September 12, 1928. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
- Tom Sullivan (January 29, 1977). "TV could celebrate its 50th". The Herald-News. Passaic, New Jersey. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com .
- "Assignment America". The Daily American. Somerset, Pennsylvania. May 16, 1951. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com .
- "First Drama sent by Radio and Television". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. September 12, 1928. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
- "Television Drama Shown First Time". Reading Times. Reading, Pennsylvania. September 13, 1928. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com .
