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
Macbeth (Hallmark Hall of Fame 1954) and was released theatrically in Europe. Macbeth (Hallmark Hall of Fame 1954) Macbeth is a live television adaptation of the William Shakespeare play presented as the November 28, 1954 episode of the American anthology series "Hallmark Hall of Fame". Directed by George Schaefer, and starring Maurice Evans and Dame Judith Anderson, the production was telecast in color, but has only been preserved on black-and-white kinescope. In 1960, Evans and Anderson starred in a filmed made-for-television production of the play, also directed by Schaefer for the "Hallmark Hall of Fame", but with an entirely different supporting cast. That production was filmed