Albert Barber
Is Sam Neeter on this shot?
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Geoff Fletcher
Sam had a moustache but that’s all I recall about his appearance. So maybe chap on far end?
Dudley Darby
It looks like Sam second from left. Possibly John Summers nearest to camera.
Graham Giles
I agree with Dudley. The man at end, I think, is Gwilym Dann. Is one John Dean? One looks a bit like Alan Russell.
Strange situation with so many Tech Ops members present. Was it a training session ? Perhaps this is the Woodstock Grove studio gallery.
Dave Buckley
Here’s what the Woodstock Grove training studio gallery looked like after the studio was colourised in 1975 (with a very young looking me at the lighting controls).
The gallery was setup like a lecture theatre with raised seating behind the production desk, and the gallery and studio floor were on the same level.
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Peter Fox
Sam second in, John Dean fourth and I think Pete Leverick might be number one, over shoulder? Looks a bit young for Johnny Summers. Gwilym is a good "maybe".
It’s unusual to see Sam in so much light.
John Howell
Someone has swiped the control room chairs this lot are on school room stackables !I agree that the 2nd from left could be Sam.
Geoff Fletcher
The guy on the end could well be Gwilym Dann, and it does look like John Dean.
Any idea when this might date from, and can the studio be positively identified? It’s an interesting photo.
Hugh Sheppard
This from a newspaper promo of the ongoing TVC development.
Dave Mundy
In my opinion,, it looks like a demo for lighting TMs. L-R, I see John Summers, Sam Neeter, ? one of the Wright brothers, John Dean, ?John Dixon, and Gwilym Dann. In 1961-2 I had the ‘good’ fortune to be in the same digs as Sam (one of the ‘Princes of Darkness’, Otis Eddy being the other one!), together with Norman Painting (Phil Archer!). Breakfast was quite surreal!
John Howell
Following my comment that the chairs were missing, could it be that they hadn’t yet arrived?
Could this be the proving trials prior to the opening of TC3 or 4?
Apart from the chairs (none in Lighting also, by the look of it) there is a lack of the ‘add-ons’ that appeared over the years. No telephones in view, the TOM’s PBX handset hung by his left knee alongside the one for the EMX and the dial was in a pull-out drawer. No ashtrays either!If I recall correctly, the two black switches above the TOM’s EMX panel selected sources to the two preview monitors A & B. I think there were only 9 monitors, 6 for cameras, 2 previews and one off-air.
If it had been in regular use I doubt if the ‘clutter’ behind the chairs would have been allowed.
Dave Plowman
It does look very much like TC: the hanging LS5 and 21" monitors all round.
Hugh Sheppard
I’m sure there were make-do gallery chairs to begin with.
But the original rig of smaller monitors had to be replaced with 21" versions (all b+w of course) because the whole bank was so far away from the control desk.
This was surely TC3 as the first functional studio.
The ‘Mole Cranes’ page (http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/mole-cranes/ ) recounts testing a Mole crane on the brand new studio floor. We found a driving wheel was spinning due to the floor not being level – and the non-existent mole crane suspension. Read (http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/mole-cranes/) for the full story.
see also Early Days at TC3
