BBC1 It’s A Square World promo
Broadcast
1964
© BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
Director of this trailer Maurice Kanareck says, “This is a trailer for Michael Bentine’s off beat comedy series ‘Its a Square World’. The driver is me and the car is my wife’s 1932 Morris Cowley. I can’t remember where we filmed it but the ‘trailer’ speaks for itself! The cod Russian commentary is spoken by my old friend, the highly talented voice mimic, the late Dick Graham who incidentally, did the commentary for Peter Watkin’s ‘The War Game’ with Michael Aspel. The long run-out, or freeze frame, was typical of trailers made by many commercial TV directors. It was a practice adopted by all commercials, so that a picture could always be held by transmission control should the following programme be late starting.”