The evening of 19/11/1966. On steroids.
Aug 31, 2020 20:43:59 GMT
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Post by John Green on Aug 31, 2020 20:43:59 GMT
Our second ‘Night In’ of classic ABC television contains an interesting little nugget that’s sure to be of interest to anyone with a taste for vintage broadcasting: an edition of the arts series Tempo that includes an almost complete evening of television compressed into the space of a few minutes… a ‘Night in within a night in’ if you like.
....We’re nothing if not TV detectives here at Network, so as soon as we saw this sequence we set ourselves the task of identifying the date on which it was filmed. Various programmes were immediately identifiable: Professional Wrestling, Emergency Ward Ten, George and the Dragon and The Baron. The wrestling suggested a Saturday, and most likely ITV London, given the preponderance of ATV productions. But there was a more significant clue that finally gave us the exact date of the filmed evening: towards the end of the sequence, there’s a complete ITN News bulletin: and amongst the images that flash by at high speed are several frames of comedian Arthur Haynes, who died on November 19th, 1966. A quick check through the TV Times archive turned up the programme schedule for that evening: an exact match for the line-up of programmes seen in New Tempo.
Notably, the film makers omitted the evening’s big movie, Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (almost certainly on copyright grounds), but everything else is there from the wrestling at 5.15 right through to the weather forecast following the ITN News. Somewhat frustratingly, the sequence ends here: had it continued, it would have captured a now lost episode of supernatural anthology series Mystery and Imagination. networkonair.com/features/2020/08/06/watch-closely-very-closely/
....We’re nothing if not TV detectives here at Network, so as soon as we saw this sequence we set ourselves the task of identifying the date on which it was filmed. Various programmes were immediately identifiable: Professional Wrestling, Emergency Ward Ten, George and the Dragon and The Baron. The wrestling suggested a Saturday, and most likely ITV London, given the preponderance of ATV productions. But there was a more significant clue that finally gave us the exact date of the filmed evening: towards the end of the sequence, there’s a complete ITN News bulletin: and amongst the images that flash by at high speed are several frames of comedian Arthur Haynes, who died on November 19th, 1966. A quick check through the TV Times archive turned up the programme schedule for that evening: an exact match for the line-up of programmes seen in New Tempo.
Notably, the film makers omitted the evening’s big movie, Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (almost certainly on copyright grounds), but everything else is there from the wrestling at 5.15 right through to the weather forecast following the ITN News. Somewhat frustratingly, the sequence ends here: had it continued, it would have captured a now lost episode of supernatural anthology series Mystery and Imagination. networkonair.com/features/2020/08/06/watch-closely-very-closely/
