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1964: How to Make a Television Drama | Monitor | Making of... | BBC Archive
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21:52Now PlayingBBC arts programme Monitor documents the various processes that go into creating a single television drama. In this instance, the drama is a play called "The Bedmakers" written by David Turner - which will be broadcast as part of the BBC's First Night series of contemporary television dramas.
We follow the cast and crew as they take this production from its conception - when writer David Turner and director Alan Bridges meet for the first time, 16 weeks before transmission - to the moments immediately following broadcast. Over the course of those 16 weeks, a great production machine springs to life, encompassing both the technical - lights, camera, sound, set design and vision mixing - and the artistic - scripting, casting, rehearsals, costume and make-up.
Clip taken from Monitor, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 2 February, 1964.
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