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The year 1937 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1937. ==Events== *January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' by J. Bissell Thomas from its London station, the first play written for television. *February 6 – The BBC Television service discontinues the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system. *March 9 – Experimental broadcasting from Shabolovka Ulitsa television center, in Moscow (USSR). *May – Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his ''Atlantic Monthly'' magazine article, the "Errors of Television". *May 12 – The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of George VI. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television – filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an 8 mm cine camera. A brief section of this footage was used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives. * May 14 – The BBC broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of ''Twelfth Night'', the first known instance of a Shakespeare play televised. Among the cast are Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson. *May 15 – RCA demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the Institute of Radio Engineers convention. *June 21 – Wimbledon Championships (tennis) first televised by the BBC. *July 10 – High definition television with 455 lines is first shown in France at the International Exposition, Paris. *September – High definition television broadcasts are sent from a new 30 kW (peak power) transmitter below the Eiffel Tower in Paris. *November 9 – Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits television signal of 800 kHz bandwidth on a coaxial cable laid between New York and Philadelphia. *November 11 (Armistice Day) – BBC Television devotes the evening to a broadcast of ''Journey's End'' by R. C. Sherriff (1928, set on the Western Front (World War I) in 1918), the first full-length television adaptation of a stage play. Reginald Tate plays the lead, Stanhope, a rôle he has performed extensively in the theatre. *December 31 – By this time, 2,121 television sets have been sold in England. *CBS announces their efforts to develop television broadcasts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1937 in television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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