Setting up a camera from an O.B.V. 
for the Coronation of Queen Elisabeth II. 

All available camera's in the U.K. were used to cover this biggest event at that time
at the B.B.C.  

Nothing broke down that day in 1953.

Setting up a camera from an O.B.V. 
for the Coronation of Queen Elisabeth II. 

All available camera's in the U.K. were used
to cover this biggest event at that time 
at the B.B.C..

Nothing broke down that day in 1953.

Setting up a camera from an O.B.V. 
for the Coronation of Queen Elisabeth II. 

All available camera's in the U.K. were used
to cover this biggest event at that time 
at the B.B.C..

Nothing broke down that day in 1953.

Setting up a camera from an O.B.V. 
for the Coronation of Queen Elisabeth II. 

All available camera's in the U.K. were used
to cover this biggest event at that time 
at the B.B.C..

Nothing broke down that day in 1953.

Budget of B.B.C. television services 
that day was 40.000 pounds.

Inside an O.B.V. of the B.B.C. in 1953, 
Coronation day of Queen Elisabeth. 

Budget of B.B.C. television services 
that day was 40.000 pounds.

Inside an O.B.V. of the B.B.C. in 1953,
Coronation day of Queen Elisabeth.

Coronation of Queen Elisabeth
covered live by the B.B.C. in 1953. 

Only 350.000 television sets were 
sold in the U.K. at that time. But...

..more than 20 million people 
saw the live broadcast 
on the 350.000 available tv sets.

Coronation of Queen Elisabeth
covered live by the B.B.C. in 1953.

Coronation of Queen Elisabeth 
covered live by the B.B.C. in 1953.