A Geoff Hawkes page


Geoff has loaned me a large pile of 35mm slides taken in the early '70s. Though I'm quite proud of this site, some of the actual building work is very dull - resizing pictures etc. This is doubly slow in the case of slides, as the scanner takes an age to process each one. I think its well worth it though to see some of these views again, sneaked by Geoff

	Television Centre in the 70s.		In TC4, Softly Softly. Actors are Norman Bowler and Stratford Johns - and the cameramen?
	More Softly
	The gallery - only two of the monitors are colour, because they cost so much. This type of monitor was also used on the floor on trolleys, and a happy time could be spend on a spare day having "line up" races, with all the complex controls in the tray below the screen which were needed to get a good picture. The vision mixer was the BBC designed "every channel has a fader" type, from before they started to buy Grass Valley etc.		Sound - grams on the left, and the original sound desk on the right. Sound didn't get a colour monitor, as a boom in shot was a black blob anyway!
	Lighting - they got more colour monitors than everyone else put together!		A different studio, and good shot of a Mole crane
	Geoff did a tour of the building, and here's VT. We think the operator is Howard Dell, though Howard hasn't confirmed this. A very distinctive sound should accompany this pic, and I'm hoping to get a sample		Telecine. I think this is one of the ones which would go at any speed - good for slomos before such things were common, always provided the material was on film of course./td>
	Pres A, home of the weather and endless trails. Jack Scott and an unknown lady.		Magnetic rubber for the isobars and symbols - how far could you throw a symbol across the studio and make it stick to the metal charts?
	The Generation Game in it's heyday - Brucie and Anthea		Spot the silhoutte
	From the swingers postion on the Mole - the metal frame in the foreground was there to stop the cameraman's head being removed by the dress circle on a fast high and over-enthusiastic track back		Typical sitcom set, in this case Keeping Up Appearances
	And again		Run the Risk
	mmm - get you!