Four Hundred and Five Lines

1936 · Electronic Television Camera · Work 1333 of 1,871

A television studio in north London on a November afternoon, hot white light from banks of lamps above left onto a small set with a sofa and a potted palm, in the foreground a television camera on a heavy wheeled stand, its boxy body of light grey hammer-finish enamel with the underside sloping down toward the front, two lenses side by side in a black frame at the top front, a black rotary knob, a small red lamp, two chrome handles, a lever ending in a black ball under a hand in a dark tweed sleeve, a glazed control window soft behind, every surface plain and unmarked.