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Stooky Bill
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Stooky Bill was the head of a wooden ventriloquist dummy that Baird used in his early experiments to transmit an image between rooms in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street London.Stooky Bill's visage ("stooky," also spelled "stookie," is Glaswegian slang for someone who is wooden in his movements; it is also a plaster-of-paris which is used to immobilise bone fractures. The lights for the experiments were so hot that Baird couldn't use a human for the tests and so Stooky Bill was adopted. The exagerrated smiling black and white features of the dummy's face were necessary for the early trials and eventually the hair became singed and the painted face became cracked by the heat of many light bulbs sited close to the dummy's head.
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