Midlands News: 07.07.1960: Open Day At Alpha Studios

Summary

An open day at the Lunch Box studio at Alpha Television at Aston in Birmingham.

Year:

1960

Duration:

0:00:46

Film type:

Black & White / Mute

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see the exterior of the Alpha Television Studio at Aston in Birmingham (The Television Theatre). We then see a group of comedians (this is the resident band from Lunch Box - Jerry Allen and this trio) dressed as building workers. They are then seen in a television studio with Noele Gordon, the presenter of the ATV daytime magazine programme Lunch Box. A crowd of spectators can be seen standing outside.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

Story number 2605.

Alpha Television was a combined studio and transmission operation between ATV and ABC that broadcast commercial television to the Midlands between 1956 and 1969.

Lunchbox was broadcast by ATV from 1957 to the start of 1964.

The building work that is visible may be for the extension to the studios that took place around this time.