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He lnl Radio News Service
7/10/4 S
"Thousands of people sitting at home or in the 'local* miles away from London saw some of the best views of the Victory parade. They were looking in by television. Hundreds of sets within 40 miles of London, which had not been used since the war began, were brought into use again.
"Most remarkable of all, scenes from the parade were viewed by a few peoole in Minehead, Somerset, 170 miles away. They were looking in on an experimental set constructed by W. E. Steel, a former RAF man.
"The results were not so good as Mr. Steel secured in a tryout the previous day, but several good shots were received of the mechanized parade,
"A BBC official described the reception in Minehead as
’amazing1 .
"’Such things have happened before*, he said, 'but it is very exceptional. ’ "
Saying that the BBC from now on will televise practically every important event, London Calling, official BBC magazine, con¬ tinues:
"A month or two ago, the Head of the BBC’s Television Service, Maurice Gorham, made a promise:
"'Outside broadcasts', he said, 'will be used increasingly to supply excitement and novelty in the television programs, and they will include "actuality" as well as events, though sport and public ceremonial will still bring viewers some of their big thrills. '
"He began fulfilment of the promise by giving viewers a sizable thrill indeed in the televising of the Victory Parade,
"A new and novel idea is soon to go on the screen: the evolution of a Television Village. Somewhere in Hertfordshire its real name is to be kept secret is a typical English village. The mobile unit will go to it and back to it again and again. It will visit the 'local’, where the 'regulars’, the dart and cribbage play¬ ers, the landlord and his wife will gossip, play, and work in the vie wingpublic * s eye. It will call on the Vicar; go around the flower-show; look in at the cricket-match (or it may be football) on the village green; drop in at village meetings and socials, ... It will, in short, so intimately present the appearance, the outlook, and the life of that village that viewers may well come to feel them¬ selves vicarious residents of it.
"That, then, is how Gorham's promise is being and will be fulfilled. But here one must echo his emphasis on the fact that live studio production must always be the backbone of the BBC's Television Service although, he adds, 'this sort of production will make more use than heretofore of film, specially taken, and of pick-ups from outside the studio, both used constructively as integ¬ ral parts of the complete production. '
"Television in Britain is back on the road again, "
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