[Tech1] Our World...yet again

Mon Jun 15 05:35:50 CDT 2020

I 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.

Dave

On 15/06/2020 09:05, ROGER BUNCE via Tech1 wrote:
> Agreed about Joan Marsden ('Mother'), Dave Hanks and Mike Figini. 
> Going 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?
>
> luv, Rog.
>
> On Monday, 15 June 2020, 00:40:11 BST, Geoffrey Hawkes via Tech1 
> <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> First off, if the crane you’re referring to is the one in the picture 
> as I assume, it’s not a Mole but a Transatlantic. I worked on The 
> Songs of the American Civil War in TC-1 where it was used and it came 
> with its own driver.
> I recognise a few of the people pictured, notably FM “Mother” 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’s camera left shoulder I’m pretty sure is Vision Mixer Dave Hanks 
> as Dave says as he has that look about him. At the back right, the man 
> highest up leaning over the arm of the crane could be Terry Loader and 
> in the middle of the 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’m sure. The bald guy in front of him looks like 
> a back projection operator whose name I’ve forgotten (was it Ted?).
> Other 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,
> Regards,
> Geoff Hawkes
>
>> On 14 Jun 2020, at 21:02, David Taylor via Tech1 
>> <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Hey guys, seeing you are talking about the Beatles again and since 
>> I'm trying to produce an article about the 'TV side' of the most 
>> notable 'Beatles BBC TV ' segment, when 'All You Need Is Love' was 
>> shown to 'The World',  I thought I'd ask something about the photo of 
>> the 'Our World' crew in TC1 that was shown in a 2016 post here on 
>> Tech Ops.
>> First 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......
>> Thanks 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.
>>
>> As 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 Alex Bray's of 2016...I have the photo below...plus 
>> your comments on the guys seen
>> <1967-Our_World_TC1 crew-via TechOps.co.uk.jpg>
>>
>> Can 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 !!
>> And of course anymore info on the TVC side of this programme would be 
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>>   “Our World” – more about this programme
>>
>>
>>   Posted onMay 29, 2016
>>   <http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/our-world-more-about-this-programme/>by
>>   Alec Bray <http://tech-ops.co.uk/next/author/alec/>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks so much
>> Dave Taylor
>>
>>
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