Question: What was the final thing shown on the channel that employs the person who coined the term theatre of absurd before it was shut down for war?

The last programme transmitted was a Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Gala Premier (1933), which was followed by test transmissions; this account refuted the popular memory according to which broadcasting was suspended before the end of the cartoon. On 1 September 1939, two days before Britain declared war on Germany, the station was taken off air with little warning; the government was concerned that the VHF transmissions would act as a beacon to enemy aircraft homing in on London. Also, many of the television service's technical staff and engineers would be needed for the war effort, in particular on the radar programme. <SEP> Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay ``Theatre of the Absurd. ''He related these plays based on a broad theme of the Absurd, similar to the way Albert Camus uses the term in his 1942 essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man's reaction to a world apparently without meaning, and / or man as a puppet controlled or menaced by invisible outside forces. This style of writing was first popularized by the 1953 Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot. Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the`` well - made play''. These plays were shaped by the political turmoil, scientific breakthrough, and social upheaval going on in the world around the playwrights during these times. <SEP> an earlier building at the same location was the turku barracks, which was destroyed in the finnish civil war in 1918. lasipalatsi, designed by three young architects viljo revell, heimo riihimäki and niilo kokko, was built on the same site in 1936. lasipalatsi, containing offices, restaurants and a film theatre, was originally designed as a temporary building, later to be torn down to allow a larger office building to be constructed in its place. the varuboden grocery, oy siemens ab and the hok ice cream bar were lasipalatsi's most prominent businesses for decades. at the time of its opening, the film theatre bio rex was one of the biggest film theatres in the city, and many formal premieres of finnish films were shown there. <SEP> Ronald Mason (8 September 1926 – 16 January 1997) was a director and producer of drama for the BBC, a BBC executive in his native Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, the Head of BBC Radio Drama as successor to Martin Esslin and was active in the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). <SEP> josé joaquim de campos leão, also known as qorpo-santo (triunfo, april 19, 1829 - porto alegre may 1, 1883), was a brazilian journalist and playwright. he is known to have written the very first absurdist theatre plays, long time before the term theatre of the absurd was coined. his family put him under judicial interdiction in 1861, because he was "writing down everything". as a matter of fact, just in may 1866 he wrote 8 plays, as noted by guilhermino césar. he looked for the best mental doctors in brazil at that time and got a document telling he was sane, but the judge never took him out of the interdiction.