
The first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist dummy, followed by that of a human being, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range..

John Logie Baird
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The Primordial Flicker To scrutinize The First Television Picture with a Greyscale Image is to engage in a form of media archaeology that borders on the sacred....
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John Logie Baird

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