Pathe News – Visit to Television Centre: this is described as part of HM the Queen’s visit to Television Centre – but there are no pictures of HM the Queen.

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Roger Bunce

Here is a link to a video titled ‘Queen Visits BBC Television Centre’ on the British Pathé website

         

Apparently the date is 1961, a bit before my time. There’s someone who looks like Eamonn Andrews – so maybe the show is “Crackerjack”. I think the ventriloquist is Saveen, with doll Daisy-May. And is that Frank Rose in Lighting?

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David Brunt

Definitely “Crackerjack”. Peter Glaze got out of the prop car.  If the 1961 date is correct, that’d be the 27th April 1961 show:

         

Pat Heigham

No Queen!

The descriptive text is inaccurate, too – it’s vision control and lighting, no sound desk!

Possibly an extract from a longer item?

Crew 3 did “Crackerjack” from the TVT when I joined the crew in 1962, but I remember being told that the show was shifted to TC3 or TC4 for the Royal visit – this is evident from the audience seating. Possibly Peter Whitmore is FM, before he took over directing, and most likely Eddie Stuart on the Heron camera.

I saw some other footage of Eddie being presented to HM when he was on the Mole Crane in the TVT . I hope someone explained to HM that he couldn’t get down and bow, because of all the counterweights!

 
 
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A short piece of footage of ventriloquist Albert Saveen from “Crackerjack” 1961 is available (thanks to Angus McGhee): in this clip, Saveen has his two dogs Mickey (on the left, a real dog) and the dummy dog on the right (as seen by the viewer).

         

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see also: HM The Queen Visit to TVC