Here is the script front page from Joan Armatrading’s, Secret Secrets Tour at the NEC, from Annie Gumbley Williams. Annie still has the T shirt! It was her second show working with the great John G Smith. She went on to work on around 20 concerts with John.
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These photos date from the 1970s, after the Reception area was moved, when the original foyer was transformed into the studio for Pebble Mill at One.
Prince Charles, John Smith (multi camera director)
Prince Charles at Pebble Mill with Director General, Alasdair Milne
Alasdair Milne with Prince Charles
Head of Broadcasting, David Waine with Prince Charles and Princess Diana
Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited BBC Pebble Mill circa 1985.
These photos date from the 1960s, when the BBC Midland Region Film Unit was based at Broadcasting House, 52 Carpenter Road.
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The following information was added on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Steve Saunderson: The camera looks like an Arriflex 2b 35mm. With a 400ft magazine ( 5 mins run time at 25fps ). The motor was underneath the camera body and fitted into a special tripod head such as a Ronford-Baker Fluid 15. Fitted with a clip-on bellows matte-box with filter tray. There was a smaller version, the Arri 16ST 16mm which could take a 100 ft ( 2mins 30secs ) daylight loading spool inside the camera body or have a 400 ft ( 10 mins run time ) magazine on top like the camera pictured.
The Land Rover emblem doesn’t specify “Midlands Film Unit” so it may have been sent up from BBC Ealing Studios.
Photos by Bhasker Solanki, no reproduction without permission
Bob Langley presenting
Donny MacLeod presenting
Photos by camera operator, Bhasker Solanki, of Saturday Night at the Mill (1976-81), the late night entertainment show, which was a spin off from Pebble Mill at One.