Clothes-Line
''Clothes-Line'' was an early BBC television programme broadcast live in six parts between 30 September and 3 December 1937. It is notable for being the first television programme dedicated to the history of fashion.Taylor, Lou, ''Establishing Dress History'', chapter 2 (Manchester 2002) It was produced by Mary Adams, and co-presented by the fashion historian James Laver and Pearl "Polly" Binder. Broadcast times * Episode 1: ''Clothes-Line'', broadcast at 21.20 on Thursday 30 September 1937 * Episode 2: ''The Sporting Woman'', broadcast at 21.20 on Thursday 14 October 1937 * Episode 3: ''Fossilized Clothes'', broadcast at 21.15 on Thursday 28 October 1937 * Episode 4: ''Hats and Headgear'', broadcast at 21.15 on Tuesday 9 November 1937 * Episode 5: ''Influences at Work'', broadcast at 21.15 on Thursday 19 November 1937 * Episode 6: ''Grandmamma Looks Back'', broadcast at 21.10 on Thursday 9 December 1937 Episode 4 was broadcast on the Tuesday that week rather than the Thur ...
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Micheline Patton
Micheline Patton (1912 – 30 June 2001) was an Irish actress who worked on radio, stage and television from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. Biography Micheline Elizabeth Patton was born in Belfast in 1912, and died on 30 June 2001 in Godalming, Surrey. Her father was Billy Patton, a surgeon. She went to school in Malvern Girls' College, and studied Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating in 1935. One of her cousins was the Irish playwright, BBC producer and war correspondent Denis Johnston. Radio Between 1935 and 1947, Patton read several short stories for BBC Radio, including works by Katherine Mansfield, Anton Chekhov, and Helen Colvill. She acted in radio plays, including playing the role of Winifred in the 1947 BBC Radio adaptation of '' In Chancery'' from ''The Forsyte Saga''. Television Patton acted in early BBC television broadcasts. In December 1937, she appeared in a backless dress in the final episode of the early fashion documentary ''Clothes-Li ...
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James Laver
James Laver, CBE, FRSA (14 March 1899 – 3 June 1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as "the man in England who made the study of costume respectable".Gibbs-Smith, Charles, Obituary in ''Costume (Journal of The Costume Society)'' no 10 (1976) Early life James Laver was born in Liverpool, England, on 14 March 1899, the second child and only son of Arthur James Laver, a maritime printer and stationer, and his wife, Florence Mary (née Barker), strict Congregationalists who brought up their children in a puritanical manner.
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Backless Dress
A backless dress is a style of women’s clothing designed to expose the wearer's human back, back. The back may be either partially exposed with a low cut or fully exposed with the use of strings. A backless dress is most commonly worn on formal occasions or as evening gown, evening wear or as wedding dresses and can be of any length, from a miniskirt-length to floor-length. Other backless styles include backless swimsuits and top (clothing), tops, such as a haltertop. Evolution Backless dresses first appeared in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the style became associated with the sun tanning fashions of the time, and the backless dress was a way of showing off a tan, usually without tan lines. The wearer usually had to be slim to be able to pull off the effect. In December 1937, the actress Micheline Patton was controversially filmed from behind while wearing a backless dress in the final episode of the early BBC fashion documentary ''Clothes-Line''.Taylor, Lou, ''Establishing Dress ...
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Mary Adams (broadcaster)
Mary Grace Agnes Adams (''née'' Campin; 10 March 1898 – 15 May 1984) was an English television producer, programme director and administrator who worked for the BBC. She was instrumental in setting up the BBC's television service both before and after the World War II, Second World War. Her daughter says, "She was a socialist, a romantic and could charm with her charisma, spontaneity, and quick informed intelligence. She was a fervent atheist and advocate of humanism and common sense, accepting her stance without subjecting it to analysis." Mary Adams was the first female television producer for the BBC. Biography Mary Adams was born on 10 March 1898 at Well House Farm, Hermitage, Berkshire. She gained a first-class honours degree in Botany from the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University). Subsequently Adams studied tissue culture at Cambridge University at the Strangeways Research Laboratory under Thomas Strangeways, Professor Strangeway ...
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Pearl Binder
Pearl Binder, Baroness Elwyn-Jones (pronounced ; 28 June 1904 – 25 January 1990) was a British writer, illustrator, stained glass, stained-glass artist, lithographer, sculptor and a champion of the Pearly King, Pearly Kings and Queens. Binder was a well-known character who had a lifelong fascination with the East End of London, where she settled in the 1920s. In 1974, she became ''Lady Elwyn-Jones'', when her husband, the politician and lawyer Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, Elwyn Jones, was appointed Lord Chancellor and made a life peer, taking the title ''Baron Elwyn-Jones''. Early life Pearl "Polly" Binder was born in Salford, Greater Manchester, Salford in Greater Manchester. Her father was Jacob Binderevski, a Jewish tailor who came to Britain in 1890 and shortly afterwards became a British citizen. Her mother's name, origins and profession are not recorded in any of the artist's biographies. Career Binder moved to London after the first world war and studied ...
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Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are Educational film, educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very Informational listening, informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social media platfor ...
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1937 British Television Series Debuts
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate ...
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1930s British Television Series
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BBC Television Shows
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Nesta Sawyer
Nesta Obermer OBE, (; 14 September 18933 October 1984), was a British philanthropist, playwright and artist. Born in Norfolk, she began writing as a child when illness forced her to be confined for a lengthy period. Travelling often, as a diplomat's daughter she began writing articles as a war correspondent during World War I. She married a wealthy playwright in 1925. As participants in an international social circle, the two travelled widely. Encouraged by her husband, Obermer wrote three plays which were produced in the 1930s in London theatres and was a well known reader on BBC Radio until the 1940s. Between 1936 and 1944, she had a romantic relationship with the painter Gluck (painter), Gluck, who called Obermer both Gluck's wife and her muse. When World War II ended, Obermer and her husband moved to Hawaii, living in Honolulu for the next 20 years. She had long contributed to good causes, often those with educational aims, and continued this work there. She became a painter ...
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