Fascinating Behind the Scenes Look at 1970s News at Ten (1971)

The ITN Archive is sad to hear of the death of Diana Edwards-Jones, founding member of ITN and one of the first directors of the News at Ten, aged 91. Remembered as a trailblazer in the industry, Edwards-Jones acted as studio floor manager of the first ITN programme in September 1955. Becoming head of programme directors in the 1970s, in February 1974 she became the first female director of a TV election special. Former colleague Alastair Stewart paid tribute to Edwards-Jones as "the best director especially of big event news TV", joking that "her language put troopers to shame”. Presented here is some spectacular footage of Diana Edwards-Jones directing the broadcast of a News at Ten bulletin on 23 July 1971.
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[@gadgetsgimmicksandtech]

An interesting mix of equipment - EMI 2001 colour cameras, Marconi MK VII Telecine, Ampex quad machine....

[@deejayC]

Absolutely fascinating and a brilliant tribute to a legendary television director.

[@markpunt9638]

How extremely calm and orderly in the gallery.

[@swanvictor887]

Sad to hear of the lady passing...a true professional and trail-blazer. You know, when you scratch the surface and do some digging, you would be surprised just how so many women laid the foundations of British Broadcasting....

[@MattyMonk]

Thank you, very interesting

[@adamcormie3362]

This is so great to see, love how polite, calm and back then. ITV News (ITN) still has by far the best presenters, it's their biggest asset. Julie, Mary, Tom, Rageeh etc are the best and just a cut above.

[@janinefarnell8570]

Diana Edwards-Jones

[@richardbrown1189]

I love the man animating the spaceship with a piece of wood. A bit before Quantel was invented!

[@johnking5174]

2:16 - This at least dates when this News at Ten aired in 1971 - the California earthquake reported here was the San Fernando Earthquake which happened at 6.00am on Tuesday 9th February 1971. Sadly the death toll would rise from the 11 mentioned here to near 60 dead in total.

[@canal_angeli]

Lindo de se ver!

[@lancechinnian4043]

Fascinating glimpse behind the scenes. Had ITN moved to Wells Street by then or still on Kingsway?

[@johnking5174]

ITN were in Wells Street by 1971. They moved there in 1969, in time for when ITN News would start to air in colour come November 1969.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Diane Edwards Jones passed away?? No has she passed away? Say that mind,in 83 ITN News at ten she must have been ease well in her 50's.

[@linmanfu913]

Somewhere on UA-cam there is a video showing a BBC television news bulletin, with the video shown to viewers and the audio from the gallery. But unlike this video, nothing works and you can hear the director get increasingly frustrated and panic-stricken as they try to fill airtime. I don't know if it's real or a fake.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Who is the lady passed away?

[@user-yw5mk3jn8r]

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[@mollyfilms]

I’m my time in news studios the best directors usually were women.

[@AdamDTaylor]

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