3-101-771 - Ware in the World/Heritage Images

Man operating film projector, c1955. This may be the Marconi EMI 'Emitron' Camera System of Television, featuring the film projector and the camera used in the televising of films. EMI Group Limited - Electric and Musical Industries, abbreviated as EMI - was a British transnational conglomerate founded in 1931. In 1934, an EMI research team led by Sir Isaac Shoenberg developed the electronic Marconi-EMI system for television broadcasting, which replaced Baird's electro-mechanical system following its introduction in 1936. After the Second World War, EMI resumed its involvement in broadcast equipment production, providing the BBC's second television transmitter at Sutton Coldfield. It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies and the BBC.