From the www.transdiffus... archives... Trevor Lucas takes us through an evening of ATV London programming by slowly getting closer and closer and closer to the camera. When edited together like this, the effect is really quite creepy.
This was Palm Sunday. And someone at ATV (possibly Lew Grade) decreed the whole evening's output, including adverts and continuity, be telerecorded for posterity.
I wonder if Trevor Lucas was told that the night's continuity was going to be telerecorded - the links seem quite wordy and well-written, but then there's few (any?) clips of 1964 continuity to compare.
So if this whole evening's broadcast was telerecorded do you think theres any chance the commercial breaks would be uploaded somewhere? Or perhaps even the start up or closedown?
The announcer is my namesake, Trevor Lucas. Did he ever go on to announce elsewhere and is he still with us I wonder? I notice he made a mistake at 1.46. He said "Sunday Palladium". He should have said "London Palladium", the programme of course being Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
Must have been a big difference watching ITV in London back then. Rediffusion with no on screen (I presume) continuity and then ATV with onscreen continuity.
Wow! No wonder ATV's London Weekend franchise was taken over by LWT in 1968, and ATV continued as a 7 day service in the midlands, until they reformed as Central in 1982.
