GTC Celebrates 50 years

On Sunday 27 November at the STEAM museum in Swindon, we held our 50 year celebration event.  We were privileged to welcome over 200 members, partners, sponsors and exhibitors who enjoyed a wide variety of activities and exhibits.

Graham Maunder, GTC Chair says:

The Council members who made up the 50th Committee headed up by Peter Rance did us proud and I have received so many wonderful emails and phone calls congratulation us.  

SETUP

Exhibits at the event ranged from the 1950's MCR21 OB truck to ZestTV's modern compact OB truck (OB1) showing just how much progress has been made in the TV world. The Roving Eye, effectively a full sized broadcast camera with box lens, mounted on a Citroen XM and used in the past for horse racing was a popular exhibit and highlighted the progress made in Health and Safety over the years! The IAWF also displayed a typical hide used for natural history production, whilst Dicky Howett displayed a range of older TV cameras.

More modern exhibits were also on display including innovative new lighting from ETC, whilst Slip End Garage were showing their Citroen e-Dispatch all-electric van.

Members were also offered several shortened versions of the Guild's popular First Aid courses.

To read more about our event, please view our latest GTC In Focus available now for our members.

PHOTOS FROM THE DAY

Please see below a selection of photos giving an insight into the day.

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GTC AWARDS AND BILL VINTEN STUDENT AWARDS

GTC AWARDS AND BILL VINTEN STUDENT AWARDS

After dinner, the annual GTC Awards of Excellence were held, culminating in the highly-rated GTC Dick Hibberd Award. Particular highlights included The Bill Vinten GTC University Awards and we were honoured that Bill Vinten's widow, Elaine attended and spoke. After a GTC Honorary and several Fellowship Awards for long-standing members, the evening rounded off with a special presentation of a unique solid gold pin to our President and founder member, John Henshall.

CELEBRITY VIDEOS

During the build-up to the event, we published several testimonials from a variety of celebrities on our social media channels, all of whom have appeared in front of our cameras over the years. Take a look at a selection below.

John Bishop

Hugh Bonneville

Jamie Oliver

Dr Hilary Jones

Charles Dance

Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan

Rob Bell

Neil Morrissey & Adrian Dunbar

Mrs Brown

Larry Lamb

Alison Steadman

Monty & Hartley Hare

Kate Garraway

Joel Dommett

Alison Hammond

Torvill and Dean

Dr Dawn Harper