from Geoff Hawkes

Television Centre in the 70s.

In TC4, Softly Softly.
Actors are Norman Bowler and Stratford Johns
– and the cameramen?

The gallery – only two of the monitors are colour, because they cost so much.
This type of monitor was also used on the floor on trolleys, and a happy time could be spend on a spare day having “line up” races, with all the complex controls in the tray below the screen which were needed to get a good picture.
The vision mixer was the BBC designed “every channel has a fader” type, from before they started to buy Grass Valley etc.

Sound – grams on the left, and the original sound desk on the right.
Sound didn’t get a colour monitor, as a boom in shot was a black blob anyway!

Lighting – they got more colour monitors than everyone else put together!

A different studio, and good shot of a Mole crane

Geoff did a tour of the building, and here’s VT. We think the operator is Howard Dell, though Howard hasn’t confirmed this. A very distinctive sound should accompany this pic, and I’m hoping to get a sample

Telecine. I think this is one of the ones which would go at any speed – good for slomos before such things were common, always provided the material was on film of course.