Scrapbook 3: U.S. to View Lands End and Arctic by Telstar

U.S. TO VIEW LANDS END AND ARCTIC BY TELSTAR

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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT GENEVA, Tuesday.

THE European Broadcasting Union announced in Geneva to-day details of the first European television programme to be relayed to the United States next Monday by the Telstar satellite. The BBC is providing the executive producer, Mr. Aubrey Singer, and the commentator, Mr. Richard Dimbleby.

To show the extent of the European network the programme will include shots taken at Gaellivare, in the Artic Circle in Sweden, the southern coast of Sicily, Vienna and the most westerly point, Lands End, in Britain.

There will also be shots from London, Paris and Belgrade, the Sistine Chapel in Rome, blast furnaces at Duisburg in the Ruhr and the European centre for nuclear research in Geneva.

The two-way transatlantic programme will start with an America to Europe broadcast between 8 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. The programme from Europe to the United States will be between 10.45 p.m. and 11.30 p.m. and will last at least 15 minutes.

The President of the Union, Mr. Roydbeck, said to-day he “was quite satisfied that there had been no bad faith and no intentional breach of any agreement” during Telstar test transmissions last week.

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Magna Carta & Hovercraft

A BBC spokesman said last night that the contribution by the BBC and Independent Television, who are pooling commentators and cameras, would include the Tower of London, Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, the Magna Carta in the British Museum, the Hovercraft at Lee-on-Solent and the Lizard lifeboat.

“Brian Connell will be the commentator at the Tower, Ian Trethowan will be with the Hovercraft and Raymond Baxter at the Lizard. Richard Dimbleby who gives the English commentary for the complete EBU programme, will cover the British Museum and Westminster sequences.” All the items would be transmitted “live.”

Kennedy conference

Part of President Kennedy’s televised Press conference on Monday will be relayed by the Telstar satellite and shown simultaneously in Britain and on the Eurovision network. The day’s American news will also be shown.