In memory of Geoff Chisholm (1965-2022)
Most won't know him but Mark Lanegan of the Screaming Trees died 🙁 Really not many left from that Seattle music scene of the early 90s.
In memory of Geoff Chisholm (1965-2022)
Our World
On 25 June 1967 “Our World”, the very first live, world wide, satellite television broadcast took place. It used the Intelsat communications satellites. 19 countries took part, including Australia. The television broadcast went for about two and a half hours and had the largest television audience at the time, somewhere between 400-700 million people tuned in.
Everything had to be live, no video tape or film was allowed and no politicians could be shown.
- Canada showed a rancher on a horse cutting out a herd of cattle.
- The US showed the premises where a conference between American president Lyndon Johnson and Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin was taking place (they couldn’t show the pollies). Dick McCutcheon talked about the impact of the new television technology on a global scale.
- Japan showed the building of the Tokyo subway
- Australia transmitted trams leaving South Melbourne tram depot and later experiments at the CSIRO and the Parked Radio Telescope
- France had Paris on a Sunday evening. A helicopter hovers reporting on the traffic
All pretty boring really, and the there was this from the United Kingdom. Originally transmitted in black and white but now available in glorious colour.
The only drum solo Ringo ever did. A triple guitar solo by Paul, then George and finally John. A fitting stellar end of an era. And it was done in just one take.
The final words by Paul are words to live by: “And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make”
Meaning you get back what you give out.
