@rgjraccoon Petula Clark's biggest success would come in the "British Invasion" era of the middle 1960's. In this clip, she was around 13 years old. She was around 31 in 1964, which made her almost a full decade older than almost every other UK pop/rock star in that era.
Typical BBC Television Service schedule for Wednesday 28th August 1946 - that is 72 years to this day, as I type this on Tuesday 28th August 2018: 11.00am until 12.10pm - Demonstration Film, specially designed to demonstrate television to shoppers in the high street during the mid morning. 3.00pm - Tour of the Zoo, Freddy Grisewood assists viewers 3.30pm until 4.00pm - Sidney Lipton and his orchestra perform for the viewers 8.30pm - Tour of the Zoo, same programme line up which aired at 3.00pm 8.45pm - Entre Nous, an intimate revue with Avril Angers, Mario Lorenzi and more 9.15pm - Guest Night - A G Street invites well know sports personalities to his home 9.40pm - Cartoon Film 9.45pm - Composer at the Piano - Vivian Ellis 10.00pm - The News in sound only 10.10pm - Closedown So only 3 hours, 50 minutes of television that day.
Considering the high-class reputation that the BBC has in the US, it's amusing to see how low-brow most of the acts in this movie are. I can understand how skinny Petula Clark appears to be, given the hardships and shortages that Britain was still enduring as a result of World War II, even after it'd ended.
@rhyskallen I looked into the subject of zoom lenses a bit further, I was essentially correct on the timing. The earliest quality zoom lens used in television did not appear until 1953.
@rhyskallen (zoom) lenses, lenses with variable focal lengths (magnificaion) were a rarity, were not yet readily available back in 1946 so you needed to have multiple fixed focal length lenses to get a wide angle view and a close up (telephoto) view. I'm not quite certain when high quality zoom lenses came into wide use and affordable availability, it seems to me it was during the early years of man's ventures into space.
@rgjraccoon Petula Clark's biggest success would come in the "British Invasion" era of the middle 1960's.
In this clip, she was around 13 years old.
She was around 31 in 1964, which made her almost a full decade older than almost every other UK pop/rock star in that era.
OMG, That's Petula Clark who walks on to perform @ 6:17! That's so cool!
Typical BBC Television Service schedule for Wednesday 28th August 1946 - that is 72 years to this day, as I type this on Tuesday 28th August 2018:
11.00am until 12.10pm - Demonstration Film, specially designed to demonstrate television to shoppers in the high street during the mid morning.
3.00pm - Tour of the Zoo, Freddy Grisewood assists viewers
3.30pm until 4.00pm - Sidney Lipton and his orchestra perform for the viewers
8.30pm - Tour of the Zoo, same programme line up which aired at 3.00pm
8.45pm - Entre Nous, an intimate revue with Avril Angers, Mario Lorenzi and more
9.15pm - Guest Night - A G Street invites well know sports personalities to his home
9.40pm - Cartoon Film
9.45pm - Composer at the Piano - Vivian Ellis
10.00pm - The News in sound only
10.10pm - Closedown
So only 3 hours, 50 minutes of television that day.
Twenty years later than this, Petula Clark looked a lot YOUNGER than she does here!
Mider mider
Freddie Schweitzer - amazing,how nice to see him from the old days of Jack Hylton's orchestra.
Amazing footage of young Petula Clark!
Considering the high-class reputation that the BBC has in the US, it's amusing to see how low-brow most of the acts in this movie are.
I can understand how skinny Petula Clark appears to be, given the hardships and shortages that Britain was still enduring as a result of World War II, even after it'd ended.
Around the 6:00 mark, a young, teenaged Petula Clark sings...
9:09 Bill Bailey certainly hasn't aged much.
@rhyskallen I looked into the subject of zoom lenses a bit further, I was essentially correct on the timing. The earliest quality zoom lens used in television did not appear until 1953.
One is shown on episode #7.......1946? I’d thought 53 was too early, but apparently not...
They did predict Man of LaMancha. Petula Clark did briefly have her own show in the 60s.
Was this Petula's debut?
no - she was a well known child star
@rhyskallen (zoom) lenses, lenses with variable focal lengths (magnificaion) were a rarity, were not yet readily available back in 1946 so you needed to have multiple fixed focal length lenses to get a wide angle view and a close up (telephoto) view. I'm not quite certain when high quality zoom lenses came into wide use and affordable availability, it seems to me it was during the early years of man's ventures into space.
I believe the first practical zoom was a Voigtlander model in 1958. They were quite common by 1965-66.....
Correction......Use of a zoom is SHOWN in a following episode. #7 I believe. So that’s 1946?
This is quite wonderful! What innocent times!
At least that's the image they tried to project, lol.
Those 2 guys at the end were pretty funny. I'm not a big fan of slapstick, but they had the timing to pull it off.
Patricia Laffan was Nyah in "The Devil Girl From Mars" and Poppaea in "Quo Vadis"
6:20 This girl looks exactly like mother. (My mother was born in 1939 so she'd have been a bit younger).
"This girl" is the legendary Petula Clark :)
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Petula Clark 6:22.
who is the woman at 1:10 ?
Took a while to find it-it was actress Patricia Laffan. www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=47840
High definition television service? I didn't think such a term existied that long ago