{"id":11399,"date":"2020-11-19T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=11399"},"modified":"2020-11-23T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:21:05","slug":"our-world-yet-more-about-this-programme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/our-world-yet-more-about-this-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur World\u201d \u2013 yet more about this programme!"},"content":{"rendered":"

See also:  \u201cOur World\u201d \u2013 more about this programme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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David Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m trying to produce an article about the ‘TV side’ of the most notable ‘Beatles BBC TV ‘ segment, when \u201cAll You Need Is Love\u201d was shown to The World (as part of \u201cOur World\u201d),  I thought I’d ask something about the photo of the \u201cOur World\u201d crew in TC1 that was shown in a 2016 post here on Tech Ops.\n

\nFirst off, I’m an ex-LWT Sound Supervisor, so I don’t know any of the people who would have been at either the TC1 \/TC2 end or the Beatles EMI Abbey Road studio 1 OB. However…I know a man who does…… \n

\nThanks to both Brian Summers and Nick Gilbey, I’ve been put in touch with Sandy Tristem, who was a cameraman on the crew of the OB at Abbey Road. He’s worked out the other members of his crew etc…and we know it was MCR28, with Derek Burrell-Davis directing. It looks like Hugh Cartwright was the EM lighting it and they had a Mole crane with Dave Gautier on the camera.\n

\nAs I’m sorting out the OB end I can move on to the TC1\/TC2 studio. Thanks to the posts on Tech Ops that started in Nov 2014 and continued with Alec Bray’s of 2016…I have the photo below…plus your comments on the guys seen.\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nCan you pin down the names previously given…apart from Aubrey Singer on the crane…as I’m at sea…not knowing the faces, or what they were doing on the show !!\nAnd of course anymore info on the Television Centre side of this programme would be appreciated.\n

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[Ed: For a comprehensive, minute by minute description of the planning, rehearsal and transmission of \u201cOur World\u201d please see David Taylor\u2019s full account HERE<\/a> .]<\/p>\n

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Tony Grant<\/strong><\/h3>\nI worked on \u201cOur World\u201d, but next door in TC2, simply adding in the odd caption throughout the proceedings. I’m fairly sure that was when I was in crew 15, Ian Gibb (Emu), although not all of us are in the ‘official’ photo here (yes, I missed out). \n

\nAs far as the photo goes, I can see Mother (Joan Marsden) was FM, clutching a clip board, front row centre,\n

\nI also spot various crew members, such as Doug Puddifoot, clutching a roll of camera tape, John Corby, I think, just behind him, and John Farr behind him again. There’s Mike Minchen a few along from Mother, and lot’s of familiar faces to whom I am as yet unable to put names to.\n

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Dave Newbitt.<\/strong><\/h3>\nIs that Dave Hanks just behind Mother?\n

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Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\nCertainly looks like him,\n

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Geoff Hawkes<\/strong><\/h3>\nFirst off, the crane \u2026in the picture is\u2026 a Transatlantic. I worked on \u201cThe Songs of the American Civil War\u201d in TC1 where it was used and it came with its own driver.\n

\nI recognise a few of the people pictured, notably FM \u201cMother\u201d Joan Marsden in the front row with arms across her script board and what may be cameraman Mike Figini two places to the right of her wearing a characteristic white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. The man behind Joan\u2019s camera left shoulder I\u2019m pretty sure is Vision Mixer Dave Hanks as Dave says as he has that look about him. \n

\nAt the back right, the man highest up leaning over the arm of the crane could be Terry Loader and in the middle of the group on the right, the man in the glasses with head tilted up looks like lighting man John Farr but he can confirm or deny that I\u2019m sure. The bald guy in front of him looks like a back projection operator whose name I\u2019ve forgotten (was it Ted?).\n

\nOther people will no doubt give their opinion on all of this but it would be a good day if everyone in the picture was identified positively as the faces are a bit blurred anyway. The task would be made easier if someone could overlay a numbering plan on it so we knew which of the people we were talking about,\n

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Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nAgreed about Joan Marsden (‘Mother’), Dave Hanks and Mike Figini. \n

\nGoing diagonally up\/right from Mike’s shoulder, the third face looks like Mike Langley Evans. A few faces further right, and up a bit, the background character (head turned sideways and up) could be Dave Austwick. I find myself worrying that the chap foreground, far left, holding a script looks like Nigel Saunders, but wouldn’t he have been a lot younger then?\n

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Dave Newbitt.<\/strong><\/h3>\nAgree with Roger about Mike Langley Evans. As ever with these challenges it always seems gradually to come together.\n

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Dave Beer<\/strong><\/h3>\nI agree about most of those names. I’m in there somewhere as I remember working on the programme but can’t recognise my junior self. I remember lots of hanging about with not much happening as with these big international shows. Far right, second row up, 2 in from the right looks like Mitch Mitchell in dark jacket, dark shirt and dark hair.\n

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Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nOk, here’s a numbered version:\n\n\n\n
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\n8  Jim Stevens\n
18  Al Kerridge (maybe)
\n31  Doug Watson
\n40  Mitch
\n50  Darrol Blake
\n53  Norman Taylor
\n54  Bob Wright
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\nDid they take TC2 cameras into TC1?\n

\nPity no one has a better quality version, though it must exist\n

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Nick Ware<\/strong><\/h3>\nI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen so many ties all in the same place at the same time! How times have changed. \n

\nIdentifying people isn\u2019t helped by the fact that to my eye the picture is horizontally challenged (squeezed).#\n

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Dave Beer<\/strong><\/h3>\nI’m possibly No 42. It looks like my ear!\n

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Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\nI thought that you were 35.\n

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Dave Newbitt.<\/strong><\/h3>\nHere\u2019s a stab at a couple more :
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\n38 Graham Beebee
\n39 Greg Ade\n

\nSometimes a name just flits across the memory and one hopes it\u2019s based on something! One thing I remember when Beebee\u2019s first born arrived was his response to enquiries about how he was doing for sleep. Being a good musical man he replied \u201cwe have bambino con sordino\u201d!\n

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Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\nI think number 2 might be John Lopes. He moved into production, so looks likely.\n

\nHe came to my 21st, some [many] years ago, and made quite a hit with a female cousin of mine!\n

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Mike Giles<\/strong><\/h3>\nIs number 31 Martin Kisner?\n

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Roger Bunce<\/strong><\/h3>\nCould number 36 be Ian Gibb?\n

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Geoff Hawkes<\/strong><\/h3>\nWell done, Bernie, for adding the numbering as it makes the discussion so much easier.\n

\nJohn Farr could be the one in the back row at number 48 rather than at 38 as that row seems to be a line-up of lighting people along with gaffer Bob Wright. \n

\nNo.52 is another lighting man or TM (or TOM, when did it change?), Frank Cresswell comes to mind, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s him. This exercise is going to lead to much frustration for those of us with fading memories. Weren\u2019t we supposed to be good at recalling ancient memories even when we\u2019d forgotten our way home? As one person remarked previously, after a while our memories become read-only, to which I replied that they then become write only.\n

\nSomeone mentioned about the camera and whether TC2\u2019s cameras were used. I think it must have come from 2 as TC1 had EMIs and that is a Marconi. When I joined in September 1963 there were only four studios in operation and apart from Pres A [and Pres B] which had EMI Vidicons, TC2 and TC3 used Marconis and TC4 and TC5 used EMIs as the BBC couldn\u2019t be seen to favour one manufacturer over the other. \n

\nTC1 opened in 1964 with EMIs and TC7 at about the same time, though I can\u2019t remember which cameras 7 had, Marconi s to even it out, I would guess. I think TC6 and TC 8 weren\u2019t opened till colour came along. TVT by the time I worked there had Pyes with electronic lens changes, as did R1 and R2, I think. Dudley Darby will give the details and correct me if I\u2019m wrong.\n

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Tony Grant<\/strong><\/h3>\nTC2 cameras stayed in TC2 mostly for captions\/graphics.\n

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Bill Jenkin<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on this show but for some reason I am not in the photo and I beg to differ, Tony.  The way I remember it is that TC2’s cameras were in TC1. If you look at the photo the camera is a Marconi Mk IV so not one of TC1’s complement.\n

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Peter Fox<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I agree with Bill. I recall working with him on it and using a couple of TC2 cameras. \n

We were a little bit concerned about being on a different phase from TC1 cameras and that we might vanish in a puff of self cancelling positrons and electrons if we touched (joking!) We were however kept apart by being on an overlooking rostrum.\n

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Tony Grant<\/strong><\/h3>\nOK, I can’t argue with anyone who was in TC1, as I was definitely in TC2 behind a camera (with captions!). So, perhaps that’s why I didn’t make the photo as only those who were in TC1 knew about it (and they missed my best side).\n

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Barry Bonner<\/strong><\/h3>\nTC7 Cameras? Herewith Steve Blatchford working one not long after the studio opened.\n\n\n\n
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Bill Jenkin<\/strong><\/h3>\nI also have a memory of Geoff Nichols working on this but can’t spot him.\n

\nI do remember Joan  Marsden, when asked to say something to test circuits, coming out with, “This is mother calling the World”.\n

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Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\nJoan was quite fierce but ran the studio with impeccable discipline.\n\n