And yet more about “Our World”

See also pages “Our World“, “Our World – All you need is Love“, “Our World – more about this programme“, “Our World -Yet more about this programme

Bernie Newnham

55 years and one month ago [from 23rd July 2022] I passed through TC1 on the way to somewhere.  I picked up a junk script with Brian Hiles name on it.  It was for “Our World”, which was what was in TC1, but it was junk because it was the original version, which started with a view from a Soviet satellite looking down at the Earth. At the last minute, the Russians took offence at something and dropped out, thus making this version of the script useless.   It’s probably the only copy.

I found it stuffed in a bag with lots of other stuff, and here it is – unclipped and scanned after 55 years – http://www.tech-ops.co.uk/Our_World.pdf

David Taylor

Bernard, how amazing that you kept it…  and have found it again!

I will relish reading it and try and incorporate bits in my original article if that’s OK.  It’s great to have an insight into the TC2 side of “Our World”, as the other documents from Norman Taylor only showed the ‘Master Control’ element in TC1 CR.

It would have been an even more world-embracing programme if the Soviet Block hadn’t pulled out at the last moment I can see.

Caversham would appreciate the original, I’m sure.

Don’t we all wish we’d kept some of our old scripts or even planning sheets. I have a couple of original ‘Mr Bean’ scripts… anyone else got anything hidden away?

 

Mike Jordan

Not forgetting a few pictures (from The Science Museum display). Anyone recognisable?

[Ed:  see all the other pages about “Our World” such as http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/our-world-yet-more-about-this-programme/]

David Taylor

Mike, [they are] all in my article…. with credits to you as well.

But I’ll be updating it with some references from Bernard’s new script.

(I’m a bit preoccupied with the history of early Neve desks at present though.)

Pat Heigham

I think the chap on extreme L (holding rolled up script) is John Lopes – he was one on the same courses at Wood Norton as I was.

And surely that’s ‘Mother’ (Joan Marsden) in the centre, holding the script?

Dave Newbitt

Left and right as camera left and right.

Front right holding roll of camera tape – Doug Watson.

On mother’s left – Jim Stephens.  Behind mother – Dave Hanks.

Centre left, white shirt, rolled up sleeves – Mike Conder.

Almost dead centre, back right of Mike Conder poss. Alan Kerridge.

Centre right, mid frame, striped tie – Mike Langley Evans. Right of Mike – poss. Alan Boyd.

Right hand side, face only (in almost full profile) – Greg Ade.

Mid-right, bottle glass specs – Graham Beebee. To the left of him, looking left, poss. John Hays.

Loads more familiar faces but brain failure kicks in as ever with these group shots.

David Taylor

Are we playing this game again….’spot the people in the Our World crew photo’?

Because it was hard to relate to the indicated faces, I put a larger scale photo, complete with ‘ID numbers’ on each person, at the end of my original article.

Go to the bottom before the ‘credits and references’ and then download the bigger shot, with the IDs.

All names verified by 2 people will be accepted, I think!

Article at:

http://postfade.co.uk/television-sound/our-world-1967-the-world-of-tv-gets-connected-live-for-the-first-time-and-the-beatles-make-it-memorable/

[Ed: So now we have TWO differently numbered ID photos of this crew – Bernie’s and David’s…]

David Newbitt

OK David:

My original narrative with numbers added.

David Taylor

The key people that had been identified when I wrote the article were:

10: Joan Marsden -Floor Manager (nicknamed ‘Mother’)

50: Aubrey Singer -Executive Producer

51: Noble Wilson – Director in TC1 – the Worldwide contributions

58: Darrol Blake -Director in TC2

61: Norman Taylor-TC1 Supervisory Engineer

62: Bob Wright

8: Jim Stephens -the vision mixer.

Bernard’s newly found script gives some more TC2 crew names – can anyone spot them: (the big downloadable copy of the photo is recommended

Designer-Norman James]

Lighting Bob Wright

TM’s Neil Campbell, Don Babbage

Sound- Brian Hiles

Tape op (is that VT or ‘grams op’) – Geoff Booth

Vision Mixer – David Hanks

FM TC-2- Tony Gilpin

AFM TC-1 – Peter Smith

Floor Assts – Stephen Withers TC1, Gerry Gavigan TC-2

Prod’s Asst – Wendy Murray.

Interesting that at the stage this preliminary script was written, the ‘Narrator’ was Michael Johnson. It was Cliff Michelmore on ‘the night’.

Alas, as I’m not a ‘Beeb’ guy, the only one I recognise is soundman Greg Ade (41)- from Trilion days.

Peter Hider

Taking a close look I recognise

2: John Lopes (South African) Cameraman then Vision Mixer,

15:     Could be Andy Tallack,

17:     Mike Figini (Camera),

18     I don’t think that is Alan Kerridge

25:     Norman Taylor

35:     Bill Coolidge (Set Operative)

43:     ‘Mitch’ Mitchell (King of the Inlay desk)

58:     Daryl Blake.

The listing as known at date 20220805

Bernie’s Numbers:

David’s numbers:

David ID	Bernie ID	Name
1	1
2	2	John Lopes
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8	Jim Stevens
9	9
10	10	Mother (Joan Marsden)
11	11	Dave Hanks
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15	Andy Tallack
	16
17	17	Mike Conder?  Mike Figini?
18	18	Alan Kerridge ?
	19
	20
	21
	22
	23
	24
	25
25	26	Norman Taylor
	27
26	28	Mike Langley Evans
30	29	Alan Boyd ?
	30
39	31	Doug Watson
	32
	33
32	34	John Hays
	35
	36	Bill Coolidge
	37
36	38	Graham Beebee
41	39	Greg Ade
43	40	‘Mitch’ Mitchell
	41
	41
	43
	44
	45
	46
	47
	48	John Farr
	49
58	50	Daryl Blake
	51
	52
	53	Norman Taylor
62	54	Bob Wright
50		Aubrey Singer (Executive Producer)
51		Noble Wilson