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
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