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In 1954 the BBC produced a
live television broadcast of
George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
It was performed twice, and the second performance recorded.
This is the entire performance:
Or download from
archive.org
One obscure point - in one of the interrogation scenes, we
see a wire recorder:
The
wire recorder
was a popular technology for dictation machines in the 20s - 50s,
before magnetic tape. It's the same thing as a reel-to-reel tape
recorder, except with a thin steel wire holding the magentic charge,
instead of a ferrous coating on a piece of tape.
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