Author Archives: Alec Bray

Topics Issue 2

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Alec Bray

This collection of “Topics”  –  composed of emails written by BBC Technical Operators – was inspired by the comments of the Tech Ops group following the release of the film “1917”.  This film tells the story of the day, 6th … Continue reading →

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Topics Issue 1

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Alec Bray

This collection was created in response to a “crie de coeur” from Tony Nuttall – in the wilds of Cumbria – who wrote: “…  superb explanations of Operational Techniques [for Sound Synchronisation]… and how to achieve them. I do hope that … Continue reading →

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A BBC “Library” of Tech Ops related materials

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Alec Bray

This section allows you to see some of the paperwork produced by and for the BBC during the “GOLDEN YEARS” of BBC Television production, when studio crews worked with actors and directors to produce world-class, world beating, theatrical-style multi-camera live … Continue reading →

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Conversations – May 2017 – November 2017

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Alec Bray

In a leading article on Thursday 10th August 2017, the “Guardian” noted that this August was a month of anniversaries:  a hundred years since the start of the battle of Passchendaele in the First World War, and seventy years since … Continue reading →

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Conversations – November 2016 to May 2017

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Alec Bray

Grumble grumble grumble … A Game of Moans … Old practitioners of the “Game of Tones” – sound supervisors, gram ops, boom ops, and all the myriad people in the old sound transmission chain – continue with discussions about poor … Continue reading →

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Conversations – May 2016 to November 2016

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Alec Bray

In the 1950s – when many of us were young and investigating everything around us – the world was mechanical. Railway signalling was mechanical, the interlocking between points and signals being achieved by, at times, a baroque arrangement of sliding … Continue reading →

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