On 26 January A Level Film and Media students Ash Bleach, James Ellis, Jason Skinner, and Zoe Hayden volunteered to film and photograph the “100 years of television” celebrations held on Frith Street in London’s Soho, at the exact location where, in 1926 inventor John Logie Baird first demonstrated his invention of television to the press and scientists.
A World Origins Site plaque was unveiled by Iain Logie Baird, (grandson of the father of television) and the event was broadcast by BBC Breakfast TV, ITV news and a variety of newspapers and radio stations.
The event was attended by representatives from the Royal Television Society, The Royal Institution, National Physical Laboratory, Science Museum, the BBC, as well as other notable celebrities from across decades of UK television.
Martin Wilkie from World Origin Sites described the College’s students as “consummate professionals.”
A huge thank you to A Level Film Studies teacher Yvonne McCoach who arranged the work experience. Yvonne said, “I felt so proud of our students who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with professionals from the press, BBC and ITV to capture this momentous occasion’.
