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PROGRAMMES FROM JULY 19 TO JULY 24 NEWS FOR TELEVIEWERS Just One More Glance plan, a drawing rough enough to make a himself, who sits aloft on the truck, and an One last peep behind the scenes before draftsman wince, but accurate enough to assistant who manoeuvres it from one Alexandra Palace locks its doors for three show the approximate positions of the cameras position to another, a job that is not as easy weeks. This time we will focus on the in the studio. This plan is approved and as it looks. The camera-man indicates his television focussers—the camera-men. But, occasionally altered by the Productions requirements for distance by a wave of the before going any farther, it should be under• Manager, delivered to the Studio Engineer, hand, a gesture that must be obeyed quickly. stood that no nonsense will be tolerated about and distributed amongst the camera-men. the word ' camera ' applied to an Emitron, Quick Orders and Responses in which, of course, not a single millimetre Remember the televising of the de Basil ballet of film is to be found—both you and I realise rehearsal last month ? A fine example there that it is a misnomer, but we remember of co-operation between the producer, who Old Bill's famous dictum too well to be silly was D. H. Munro in this instance, and the about it. If you know of a better term for camera-men. The essence of the show was an Emitron than a camera, don't expect its spontaneity. A rehearsed rehearsal would people to go for it. They won't, any more have been a paradox only too evident to than they will confine 'cavalcade' to meaning viewers. When SOUND and VISION glowed a procession of horses. red in the studio neither the camera• men nor Munro knew what was going to happen. Had you been in the control room, Of the Old Brigade looking through the observation window with Altogether there are at Alexandra Palace Munro at the scene below you, you would about ten men who are capable of doing have heard him mutter into the microphone television camera work, eight of whom are rapid instructions such as these: ' No. 2 on duty each day in two shifts. All but one camera, over to Baronova in the corner ! ' or two were on the engineering staff of the ' No. 1, " shoot" that girl by the door BBC before the Station opened in 1936. 'Tracking-up' on Nina Devitt in the studio. The fanning herself with her hand—quick ! ' Or camera-man has just told his assistant he has perhaps a hurried whisper to the ' mixer ', advanced sufficiently. Topsy-Turvy 'Showmewhatpicture'sonNo. 3 !' Thesuccess Each camera has a view-finder of ground The Day Begins of the show depended on Munro's instructions being carried out almost instantaneously. glass, about 4 inches by 5 inches, which The ' lining-up' for rehearsal takes place gives an inverted image. Here then is one first thing in the morning, soon after 9 a.m. difficulty : the camera-man sees everything This comprises the arrangement of the One-Man Audience upside-down, chorus girls standing on their cameras, the adjustment of view-finders, the From the artist's point of view the human heads and tapping their feet on the ceiling, checking of focussing. At 10 a.m. the pro• side of the camera-man is often an important prima donnas looking like circus acrobats. ducer comes on the scene. He sits aloft in factor. Imagine yourself cracking jokes in Obviously, the first requisite of a camera-man the control room with a bird's-eye view of a close-up, the Emitron only a foot or so is a cool head. Three things often concern him the studio from the observation window. In away from your face, the camera-man in his all at once—focussing, panning, and com• front of him are two monitors, one showing white coat, the audience you cannot help position. The focussing is manipulated by the image being transmitted, the other show• seeing. . . . But it is usually not as bad as a control knob on either side of the view- ing the image that can, if necessary, be all that. Probably you would have the same finder and the difficulty of doing this success• transmitted from any of the other cameras. experience as Charlie Farrell, Chick Endor's fully in a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers type Behind him is the ' mixer ', an engineer who partner, who could say after a recent cabaret : of dance scene can be imagined. As for has controls that fade-out one camera and ' The camera-man's face makes all the differ• composition, this is an important artistic substitute another, an operation that is done ence in the world. He smiled so much I really consideration, in which the skilled photog• at the producer's dii lotion.. On the pro• began to think we were funny.' rapher shows to advantage. The lighting tends ducer's desk is a micropnone that can put to make things even more harassing: the him in telephonic communication with the 'The Scanner' illumination from the 5 kilowatt lamps camera-men, who wear headphones. occasionally makes the image on the view- finder rather indistinct. Two Moving As One But down the steep iron staircase back to INTERIM Producers' Pencil V/ork the studio floor : here may be four Emitrons, In order that an overhaul and certain internal Now all this tends to give the impression one trained on a caption board, another adjustments may be carried out at Alexandra that only a superman is capable of success• perhaps giving a profile of a pianist, a third Palace, transmissions will be suspended for fully manning an Emitron. Perhaps this showing a close-up of the hands on the three weeks, beginning on Monday, July 26. There will, however, be television transmissions would be true were it not for the producer, keys, and the fourth, and most important of from Wimbledon of the Davis Cup on July 26 whose job it is to tell the camera-man exactly all, mounted on a movable truck to follow and Tuesday, July 27, between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., what he wants. Every producer begins his a troupe of dancers. Two men have to with an extension until 4.30 p.m. if necessary. plans for a show by sketching a camera operate this last Emitron—the camera-man RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUP MONDAY JULY 19 VISION 45 Mc/s TUESDAY JULY 20 SOUND 41.5 Mc/s TELEVISION P

to Rome, and a few years later he 9.15 Film travelled to Germany to graduate in THE DAVIS CUP philosophy at the University of 'LOBSTERS' Bonn. In 1925 he founded an Arts On Monday and Tuesday at intervals between Theatre in Rome for the performance 9.25 CABARET of new Italian and foreign plays, and with in the same year he brought the 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. viewers will see scenes from the company of this theatre to London Valerie Hobson Inter-Zone Final at Wimbledon. On Saturday, and for the production of some of his Richard Dolman own plays. He died in December, Ernst and Lotte Berk 1936. the following Monday and Tuesday, when the Charles Zwar normal service will be suspended, there will Edward Cooper 3.15 Film and be television broadcasts of the Challenge Round. LADYBIRDS' Eric Wild and his Tea-Timers Produced by Dallas Bower 3.25 ERIC COATES conducts 9.50 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS Transmission by A Section of the BBC Chorus The BBC Television Orchestra Leader, Boris Pecker 10.0 CLOSE the Mai coni-EMI system and Trevor Anthony, Edward Crowther, in a programme of his own Douglas Ward, and D. Roderick Jones , compositions All programme timings The BBC Television Orchestra Saxo-Rhapsody Monday shown on these pages Leader, Boris Pecker (Solo saxophone, KEN GRAY) Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum are approximate Overture, The Merrymakers Television programmes will be inter• Produced by Stephen Thomas I pitch my lonely caravan rupted between 3.0 and 4.0 for short relays from the Inter-Zone Final of March, Knightsbridge (London Suite) 3.50 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS the Davis Cup at Wimbledon Eric Coates's ' Saxo-Rhapsody ' was 4.0 CLOSE first performed at the Folkestone Musical Festival in September, 1936, 3.0 Film and was broadcast on January 16 'LOBSTERS' last, the soloist on both occasions being Sigurd Rascher, for whom 3.10 'DERBY DAY' 9.0 Film the piece was written. To serious concert artists like Rascher who have A comic opera by A. P. Herbert 'LADYBIRDS' for long lamented the scantiness of Music by Alfred Reynolds the saxophone repertoire, the ' Saxo- 9.10 'DERBY DAY' Rhapsody ' is an ideal composition; Bert Bones Frank Drew it does much to dispel the erroneous A comic opera by A. P. Herbert John Bitter George Baker idea that the saxophone is solely a Rose Tessa Deane {Details as at 3.10) jazz instrument. For all this, however, Mrs. Bones Charlotte Leigh Coates has said of it: ' Secretly 9.50 GAUMONT BRITISH feeling that where there is a saxophone Sir Horace Waters, J.P. NEWS syncopation is never far away, I Frederick Ranalow surreptitiously slipped in a few bars Lady Waters Esther Coleman of syncopated rhythm, hoping that Eddy Gordon Little 10.0 CLOSE the classically-minded Sigurd would and not mind.' Vera Robson, Christine Lindsay, and The soloist this afternoon, Ken Desmond Davis Gray, is a member of the BBC Tuesday Television Orchestra.

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3.0 'THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH' A dialogue by Luigi Pirandello 9.0 THE JOHN CARR The Man William Devlin JACQUARD PUPPETS The Customer Philip Thornley John Carr, described by his wife as The Woman Genitha Halsey chief ' puppetrator ' of the Jacquard Puppets, makes a special point of and a Guitarist adapting his show to television. All Produced by Royston Morley the models are made by him and dressed by his wife, and manipulated The Man With the Flower in his by his family. Perhaps his most Mouth is one of the few Pirandello attractive creation is his musical trio, plays that are well known in the composed of a 'cellist, pianist, and English theatre. It has been broad• violinist, whose movements are made cast, and twice televised on the old to correspond accurately with the thirty-line system. One of the music. Of these three musicians, it television broadcasts was with puppets, is hoped that the fiddler will be seen produced by Jan Bussell. The play by viewers today. Although John ends on a grim note, and the philosophy Carr has been interested in puppets ERIC COATES will be seen con• contained in it is characteristic of the only for about four years, he has ducting some of his own works on author. He was born in Sicily in established himself as one of the JOHN GOSS and ELI Tuesday and Thursday 1867. At the age of nineteen he went foremost authorities on the art. as they will be seen in The Mizzen Cn I

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3.15 THE DANCERS OF DON Kichman. Her nationality is a trifle Wednesday j (Leader, the Hon. Elisabeth Forbes- puzzling. She was born in Milan of Sempill) a German-Polish mother and a Russian-Polish father. It is not in a programme of Scottish Country surprising, therefore, that her reper• 3.0 ERNEST MILLS Dances toire includes songs in four different Cartoonist which they will perform in Paris when languages. they represent Scotland next week at the Exposition Internationale des Arts 9.10 ERNEST MILLS 3.10 GIRLS AND BOYS et des Techniques Cartoonist COME OUT TO PLAY Scottish country dances are based An Outside Broadcast in the Alex• almost entirely on the French model, 9.25 GAUMONT BRITISH a reminder of the 'Auld Alliance ' andra Palace Grounds—weather per• between Scotland and France. They NEWS mitting combine formality and vitality in well-balanced quantities; and the 9.35 THE MIZZEN The grounds in which Alexandra great point to remember is that the CROSS TREES Palace stands are a favourite rendez• music is not of the bagpipes but of vous of North London children. In the fiddle, the instrument that was A Revue of Nautical Songs and the charge of their mothers or nurse• introduced to Scotland with the Dances maids, dozens of them are to be seen dances themselves. with playing together on the terrace and The Hon. Elisabeth Forbes-Sempill, the grass slopes below. Only bad the leader of the dancers, is a young John Goss weather keeps them away, and pro• woman in whom love of all things Taylor Harris vided there is no rain the television Scottish is very strongly developed. camera will be taken out of the studio She has made it her business to be Elizabeth French into the open air to show viewers able to speak in the language of the Wendy Toye MARIE EVE, whom viewers will some of these small visitors who north-east of Scotland, so efficiently frequent Alexandra Park. (bv permission of see forthe firsc time on Wednesday that she has won prizes for the H. M. Tennant, Lid.) recitation of Scottish verse in compe• tition with speakers to whom Scots The BBC Television Orchestra Leader, Boris Pecker was their natural tongue. Another of 3.35 CABARET her accomplishments is the playing of Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum with the clarsach and the harp. Her Chorus: Trevor Anthony, Edward enthusiasm for Scottish country Crowther, Douglas Ward, D. Roderick Valerie Hobson dancing led her to found ' the Jones Richard Dolman Dancers of Don', who, having performed all over Scotland and in Dances arranged by Wendy Toye Ernst and Lotte Berk a good many places in England, are Produced by Stephen Thomas now going to Paris to represent their Charles Zwar country in a dancing festival. Edward Cooper 10.0 CLOSE and 3.25 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS Eric Wild and his Tea-Timers Thursday Produced by Dallas Bower 3.35 *AD LIB.' 4.0 CLOSE A revue by Herbert Farjeon 3.0 STARLIGHT The music by Michael Sayer ELSIE CARLISLE Costumes by Stella Pearce in Comedy Songs 9.0 'THE MAN WITH THE with' accompanied by Ronald Aldrich and FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH' Freddie Aspinall Nadine March A dialogue by Luigi Pirandello Elizabeth French 3.10 EXPEDITION ON A The Man William Devlin Irene Prador BICYCLE The Customer Philip Thornley Myfanwy Evans The Woman Genitha Halsey Cyril Ritchard and a Guitarist James Hayter There are only two ways of seeing the country : one is to walk, the other Produced by Royston Morley and chorus under the direction of to cycle. Myfanwy Evans chooses the Ronnie Bowyer latter means of propulsion, and this afternoon she will try to convey the 9.15 Film The BBC Television Orchestra enjoyment she had when she recently 'MICKEY'S PAL PLUTO' Leader, Boris Pecker made a cycling tour of the Chilterns. Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum The expedition started with an empty A Walt Disney Cartoon Produced by Stephen Thomas haversack, which soon began to swell and bulge with odds and ends, some of which will be shown on the tele• 9.25 ERIC COATES 4.0 CLOSE vision screen. She met some interest• conducts ing people, too, and one or two of The BBC Television Orchestra them will be with her today in the studio. Leader, Boris Pecker Myfanwy Evans is the wife of in a programme of his own John Piper, who has given several compositions television talks in the past. She Saxo-Rhapsody studied English at Oxford where she (Solo saxophone, KEN GRAY) 9.0 MARIE EVE was president of the University Overture, The Merrymakers in Continental Songs Women's Swimming Club. Now she is editor of Axis and a contributor to I pitch my lonely caravan This will be the first time that Marie periodicals such as Time and Tide March, Knightsbridge (London Suite) Eve has appeared at Alexandra Palace. and The ATew Statesman. She has only just arrived in England, 9.50 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS where she is now singing in a West- LIZABETH FRENCH End cabaret; and very shortly she 3.25 GAUMONT BRITISH Zross Trees on Wednesday and Friday goes to Deauville to partner Harry NEWS 10.0 CLOSE 4 RADIO TIMES TELEVISION SUPPLEMENT, JULY l6, 1937 TELEVISION PROGRAMMES FRIDAY JULY 23 AND SATURDAY JULY 24 VISION 45 Mc/s SOUND 41.5 Mc/s

4.0 CLOSE an extension to 4.30 p.m. This means, 4.0 CLOSE therefore, that viewers will have an opportunity of seeing something of all three days of the Davis Cup Challenge Round, instead of the 9.0 'THE RAFT' first day only, as was originally 9.0 STARLIGHT contemplated. An Interlude by Stephen Leacock ELSIE CARLISLE in Comedy Songs Harold Boris Hedley Briggs 3.0 IN OUR GARDEN accompanied by Ronald Aldrich and Edith Croydon Diana Beaumont Another practical talk by C. H. Middleton from the garden in the Freddie Aspinall Scene : Lost in the Caribbean Sea grounds of Alexandra Palace Produced by Jan Bussell 9.10 SUMMER GARDENING 3.15 THE JOHN CARR A studio talk by C. H. Middleton 9.15 Film JACQUARD PUPPETS 'BUGLE FROM BLUE GRASS' 9.25 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS 3.25 GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS 9.25 'AD LIB.' 9.35 REVIEW OF REVUES A revue by Herbert Farjeon 3.35 REVIEW OF REVUES Produced by Dallas Bower The music by Michael Sayer Produced by Dallas Bower The artists include: Costumes by Stella Pearce • Adele Dixon The artists include: with Valerie Hobson VALERIE HOBSON who will face Adele Dixon Nadine March Cyril Ritchard the cameras on Tuesday, Thursday Valerie Hobson and Saturday Elizabeth French Antony Tudor Irene Prador Cyril Ritchard Maude Lloyd Cyril Ritchard Antony Tudor The BBC Television Orchestra James Hayter Maude Lloyd Leader, Boris Pecker Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum Friday and chorus under the direction of The BBC Television Orchestra Ronnie Bowyer Leader, Boris Pecker The BBC Television Orchestra Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum 10.0 CLOSE 3.0 'PYRAMUS AND Leader, Boris Pecker THISBE' Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum A most lamentable comedy con• Produced by Stephen Thomas tained in A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare 9.50 GAUMONT BRITISH Bottom Wilfrid Walter NEWS Quince Charles Lefeaux Flute Don Gemmell 10.0 CLOSE Snout Eric Chitty Snug Herbert Lees Starveling Hubert Leslie Theseus John Rudling Saturday Philostrate Kenneth Villiers Hippolyta Jillian Sandilands 2.30 THE DAVIS CUP Produced by Jan Bussell A relay from the Challenge Round 3.15 Film of the Davis Cup at Wimbledon 'MICKEY'S PAL PLUTO' In addition, the programmes between 3.0 and 4.0 will be interrupted for A Walt Disney Cartoon short relays from Wimbledon ' In my opinion, much of the fascina• 3.25 THE MIZZEN tion of television, and to a great CROSS TREES extent its future, is bound up with A Revue of Nautical Songs actuality, a virtue which it alone and Dances possesses, and which the news-reel, with its time-lag, misses. In direct with television the viewer will learn John Goss and appreciate that the picture Taylor Harris he is watching in his home is the picture he would be seeing at that Elizabeth French very moment were he with the Wendy Toye camera, and not one that has already (by permission of taken place.' These words of the H. M. Tetmant, Ltd.) Director of Television, written in The BBC Television Orchestra April, have had particular significance Leader, Boris Pecker during the last few weeks, when Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum transmissions of tennis from Wimble• Chorus: Trevor Anthony, Edward don have been a regular feature of Crowther, Douglas Ward, D. Roderick the programmes. Jones Viewers are reminded that on Dances arranged by Wendy Toye July 26 and July 27, when normal programmes have been suspended, Produced by Stephen Thomas there will be transmissions from Wimbledon of the Davis Cup between John Carr and his family with their JACQUARD PUPPETS. Viewers 3.50 BRITISH MOVIETONEWS 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., with, if necessary, will have an opportunity of seeing them on Tuesday and Saturday. Printed in England by REMBRANDT PHOTOGRAVURE LIMITED, Hagden Lane, Watford, Herts, and Published by the BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION at 35, High Street, Marylebone, London, W.l, England—July 16, 1937.

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