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The 1948-1949 'French season' of ballet broadcasts on British television came about as a result of the Society of West End Managers' ban forbidding television appearances for artists who were at the same time appearing in West End theaters. The companies televised were the Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees and Roland Petit's Les Ballets de Paris. The series received much publicity and contained four programs, the first and last by the Opera Ballet. The season contributed to an increased understanding of television as a ballet medium.
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Christian Simpson was responsible for much innovation in the BBC's television broadcasting of dance from the late 1940s until the middle of the 1950s. Viewers outside London had him to thank for their first viewing of televised ballet, often their first viewing of ballet of any kind. Simpson believed in televised ballet and in taking the art form to audiences who would not otherwise be exposed to it. Simpson's output was enormous and he was original in his televising of ballet.
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Postwar Britain's atmosphere of austerity extended to television, but the period was still marked by some developments in the production of ballet for television. Christian Simpson, a television producer with a strong interest in putting ballet on television, became prominent. Metropolitan Ballet and the Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo made their television debuts. A program of excerpts from Frederick Ashton ballets was televised and extremely well received on May 10, 1949.
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