If you wanted to work in television back in what turned out to be the golden age of British TV, you generally had to get trained at the BBC. If you wanted to be a cameraman – the sixties equivalent of “wanting to be a train driver” of earlier decades – you had to get on a BBC technical operators course. I for one didn’t realise till much later just how much competition there was for these – typically 1000 applicants per course. Well, TO25 had about 30 of us, and 13 on the London TV section. Two didn’t make through the course, 8 of us made it to cameraman and 3 to sound. In the end, 7 of us stayed in the BBC to retirement.
Robin Sutherland and Dave Beer recently found these pictures in their archives….
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