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May 12 – The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of George VI. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television – filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an 8 mm cine camera. A brief section of this footage was used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives. There is a YoutTube clip of the then BBC Director Of Television (1935-1940), Gerald Cock, interviewed in 1967 about this broadcast, saying "Lesley Barber, who was our cameraman, got under the television camera and for the record he took a film of exactly what the camera saw as they (the coronation party) came forward". His film is shown in the same YouTube clip. Youtube cJrBls_jOrs?t=3m10s — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bungeecork (talk • contribs) 07:35, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]