BBC Weather map filled the entire screen, with an off-screen announcer reading the next day's weather. On 11 January 1954, the first in-vision weather forecast was broadcast, presented by George Cowling. In an in-vision the narrator stands in front of the map. At that point, the maps were drawn by hand in the London Weather Centre, before being couriered across London. The forecasts were presented by the same person who had composed them, and had relatively low accuracy. The London Weather Centre which opened in 1959 took the responsibility for the national radio weather broadcasts. Radio forecasters were chosen by a BBC
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