EMI was formed in April 1931 to acquire the ownership of the Gramophone Company Ltd. and the Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd. On 4 February 1935, Mr. I. Shoenberg, the Director of Research of the Marconi-EMI company put forward to the Television Committee his company's proposals for an all-electronic television system. It was based on a specification of 405 lines per picture and 50 frames per second, interlaced to give 25 pictures per second, and incorporated electronic camera tubes called emitrons.
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