The Pages in the Gap

1974 · Teletext Television Receiver · Work 1130 of 1,871

A television laboratory of a research centre in Wembley near London on a September evening, blue dusk at tall windows, ceiling tubes lit, on a grey linoleum floor a colour television receiver in a box-shaped teak cabinet about seventy-five centimetres wide on four splayed wooden legs, at left a curved picture tube in a chrome-edged black surround glowing with short rows of blurred coloured blocks on a dark ground, at right a black panel with six blank push-buttons and four sliders, below a grille of wooden slats, under the cabinet a shallow drawer with four blank push-buttons and small thumbwheels, an engineer's hand in a white cuff turning a thumbwheel.