Blumlein Resources - Films

Film Items on Blumlein By Dora Media Productions

Filming The Blumlein Documentary

July/August 2000

by Robert Charles Alexander

Dora Media Productions

Filming At The Crash Site -

7 June 2007

by Robert Charles Alexander

Dora Media Productions

The Halifax V9977 Memorial Unveiling

9 June 2019

by Robert Charles Alexander

Dora Media Productions 37'01"

The RAF Defford Memorial Unveiling

28 July 2002

by Robert Charles Alexander

Dora Media Productions

The Inventor of Stereo: The Life and Works of Alan Dower Blumlein 2009

by Robert Charles Alexander

Dora Media Productions 26'43"

School For Secrets (1946)

Directed by Peter Ustinov

Rank Organisation 1h 40' 03"

Blumlein Documentary Shorts 2002 & 2009

by Robert Charles Alexander

Dora Media Productions 3'17"

Abbey Road Blumlein Plaque Presentation April 2015

by Robert Charles Alexander

Dora Media Productions

Items on Alan Dower Blumlein on YouTube

Who was Alan Dower Blumlein?

EMI Archive Trust 1'04"

Simon Blumlein discusses his father.

Invention of Stereo Sound : Alan Blumlein and 'Walking & Talking' Abbey Road 1'49"

A stero film made by Blumlein, to demonstrate his creation.

Alan Blumlein - Inventor and Engineer IET 1' 11'' 40''' Simon Blumlein discusses his father at Solent University for thr Institute of Engineering and Technology.

The history of the stereo micing technique

J Shot Productions 12'02"

A brief history of stereo ambient acquisition techniques.

The Blumlein stereo microphone technique

Paul McGowan, PS Audio 6'46" Alan Blumlein was the genius that invented stereo. How did he use microphones to build that first stereo system?

Alan Dower Blumlein - The first name in stereo IET 3'47"

A short documentary by the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Alan Blumlein News Interview on the announcement of the Alan Dower Blumlein Technical Grammy - February 2017

Sky News 5'39"

Alan Blumlein discusses his grandfather.

Alan and Simon Blumlein at Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road 3'56" Exclusive interview with Alan’s Son and Grandson where they discuss his work and ground-breaking contributions to music.

Trains at Hayes Station - the world's first film with stereo sound by Alan Blumlein 0'39"

Trains At Hayes - the world's first film with stereo sound by Alan Blumlein.

Alan Blumlein's Stereo Model EMI Archive Trust 0'45" Built by Alan Blumlein in the 1930s to illustrate the concept of his revolutionary recording invention - stereo.

Steve Albini on Alan Blumlein Crate Records 6'34" Steve Albini an electronics engineer from Hampstead, London, talks about Alan Dower Blumlein.

First Stereo on disc - Hear Blumlein's complete demo tracks in stereo Sound and Technology 09'24" In 1934, Alan Blumlein was in Abbey Road studios recording the first stereo tracks on disc.

Alan Dower Blumlein - Technical Grammy

Announcement ITV News 3'56"

Simon Blumlein Interview on the announcement of the Alan Dower Blumlein Technical Grammy.

Hear the first ever stereo: blumlein's recordings from eighty years ago Vision & Technology 5'00"

Some of the first ever stereo music put on disc over 80 years ago by Blumlein at Abbey Road Studios.

Stereo Recording

Mr Soundman 2'10"

A short documentary on the history of stereophonic sound development.

Neville Thiele on Alan Dower Blumlein

Audio Engineering Society 2'35"

AES Oral History - Neville Thiele explains his connection with Alan Blumlein.

Alan Dower Blumlein - Perfecting Stereo Sound (1935) EMI Archive Trust 02'30"; 00'11" - Walking & Talking #2; 00'55" - Stick Trick; 01'32" - Move The Orchestra.

Blumlein's Long-Tail Pair in general terms

DeepBlueHart 11'55"

Explaining the long-tail pair as a general concept as described in Alan Dower Blumlein's patent.

Items on EMI/Marconi & Baird Television on YouTube

BBC Archive 2 November 1986: The Fools On The Hill - a 1986 TV Movie which dramatises the events at the BBC leading up to the very first EMI/Marconi Television System broadcasts in 1936.

The Coronation of King George VI - 12 May 1937 - taken from the actual television broadcast on the day.

BBC Archive Click 23 October 2022: How BBC Television first went live - In 1936, the BBC’s television service launched for the first time from London’s Alexandra Palace. Two studios, fitted out with the latest technology, broadcast to people living in London and the surrounding home counties. Two different camera systems were in operation at its inception - the Marconi-EMI in Studio A, the Baird Company in Studio B, which were used on alternate weeks. Ultimately, the Marconi-EMI was favoured to be the better system, and viewers got to witness ‘high-definition television’ on their TV sets.

BBC Imagine 19 December 2006: And Then There Was Television - Alan Yentob visits Alexandra Palace and looks back at it's first high-definition television broadcast in 1936.

BBC Review 4 April 1970: James Mossman is joined by two of Baird's assistants, Tony Bridgewater and D R Campbell, explain how Baird's mechanical system was unable to compete with electronic television systems.

BBC Archive 1 November 1986: The History Of Royal Recording - The Coronation of King George the 6th, the Father of the current Queen Elizabeth, was covered by BBC Television on 12 May 1937. Only 10,000 people saw it and while there was no record of what actually went to air, no Kines or Videotape back then.. an enterprising BBC Cameraman set up a Film Camera behind one of the TV Camera Operaters to give an idea of what was visually captured.

BBC Newsnight 27 October 2016: Paul Reveley worked as the personal technical assistant of John Logie Baird, who developed the system used to broadcast television.

BBC Archive 26 July 1937: Survey of television production in the first six months since launch in 1936. With Leslie Mitchell, Jasmine Bligh & Elizabeth Cowell, originally broadcast (by TV manufacturers in select viewing rooms).