George Cowling stationed as a meteorological assistant with No. 4 Bomber Group RAF in Yorkshire, and worked as a forecaster for the RAF, working in Britain, Normandy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany until 1953. In 1954 he was transferred to the London Weather Centre. On 11 January 1954, at the age of 33, George Cowling gave the first televised weather forecast, from the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, at 7.55pm. The forecast was live and 'in vision', with Cowling standing in front of the weather map, using a pencil and rubber to show the weather for the next day. He informed the viewing
Svengali (1954 film) akin to John Huston's gorgeous Moulin Rouge (1952), photographed in Technicolor by Oswald Morris. "Svengali" was made on a fraction of that film's budget, though does look handsome for what it is." Svengali (1954 film) Svengali is a 1954 British drama film directed by Noel Langley and starring Hildegard Knef, Donald Wolfit and Terence Morgan. A svengali hypnotises an artist's model into becoming a great opera singer, but she struggles to escape from his powers. It was based on the novel "Trilby" by George Du Maurier. Donald Wolfit was a last-minute replacement for actor Robert Newton, who left three weeks