Mort Smith Playing Pong
A still from the BBC’s 1975 ‘This is Ceefax’ documentary depicting Mort Smith editing a Ceefax page – except here, he’s slacking off by playing Pong on his visual display unit.
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Mort Smith was the first salaried employee of Ceefax in 1974 after Colin McIntyre founded the editorial team. He would go on to work for Intelfax before retiring from teletext in 2001 to become a motorcycle courier.