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Stooky Bill
With jet black eyes and hair singed by the lights of the John Logie Baird’s early televisor, Stooky Bill was the inventor’s ventriloquial sidekick. Stooky’s face appeared as a streaky blob on the second ever televisor image, around 1925. Here’s photographic evidence that Baird had at least two Stooky Bills.
30 May 2011
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