ATV Midland Tenth Anniversary: 18.02.1966: Interviews (2)

Summary

Reg Harcourt interview with guests at an event at Birmingham Council House to mark the tenth anniversary of Associated Television broadcasting in the Midlands.

Year:

1966

Duration:

0:03:56

Film type:

Black & White / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see see guests arriving. Reg Harcourt interviews Noele Gordon who remembers the start of ATV in the Midlands and her first programme 'Tea With Noele Gordon'; rose grower Harry Wheatcroft who likes the local news; Lord Tavistock, the Duke of Bedford who favours educational and youth programming; former ATV director Jack Barton who now works for the Duke at Woburn Abbey. Barton remembers directing 1,000 episodes of the Lunchbox series. Finally Harcourt talks to George Sinker, the Provost of Birmingham Cathedral who offers his congratulations to ATV.


Credits

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Notes

Film was part of a special broadcast at 11.40pm to mark the anniversary. Other material used in the broadcast including coverage of the dinner and scenes inside ATV were produced on video tape and no longer survive. Midland Newsbeat newspaper reported that this film was very late arriving at the studio due to a late taxi transporting it from editor Brian Hollins to Aston for broadcast.