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  Cecil McGivern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cecil McGivern CBE (born May 22, 1907 in Newcastle, UK; died January 30, 1963 in Buckinghamshire, UK) was a British broadcasting executive, who initially worked for BBC Radio before transferring to BBC Television in the late 1940s.
The son of Irish immigrants, McGivern was educated at St Cuthbert's Grammar School and later attended Durham University.
McGivern's period in Control of the channel's output saw an explosion in popularity of the television service, helped greatly by the 20 million audience for the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cecil_McGivern   (588 words)

  
 Cecil Harvey - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cecil Harvey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After being orphaned at a young age Cecil is taken in by the King of Baron and raised as a Dark Knight.
For his disobedience, Cecil is relieved of his command as Captain of the Red Wings and ordered to deliver a mysterious package to the village Mist.
After the package kills most of the inhabitants, he goes on a quest to stop the evil king, eventually becoming a paladin to fight the true evil that is using Baron as a puppet.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Cecil-Harvey.html   (249 words)

  
 Cecil Jacobson - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cecil Jacobson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cecil Jacobson - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cecil Jacobson.
Cecil Jacobson is a US fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients.
In the 1960s Jacobson, who was a researcher at George Washington University Medical School, claimed that he had impregnated a male baboon; he had supposedly planted a fertilized egg from a female baboon into the male's abdominal cavity.
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 Cecil John Kinross - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cecil John Kinross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cecil John Kinross - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Cecil John Kinross.
Cecil John Kinross was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was 20 years old, and a Private in the 49th Bn., Alberta Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
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 Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Cenci 2001. People's Theatre Studio Upstairs. The Cenci 1935. People's Theatre, Rye Hill. ...
The honours might have gone to Miss Louise Smith, who did some of Beatrice's declamatory speeches exceptionally well, save that the character is played almost continuously in so high a key that the wail becomes tiresome.
Cecil McGivern did well as Cenci, a part somewhat self-consciously restrained in its wickedness.
CENCI (Cecil McGivern), Lucretia (Winifred Eddy) and Savella (R. Perring) in a scene from Shelley's "Cenci," which is being produced this week at the People's Theatre, Newcastle.
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 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | 50th Birthday | A difficult birth
Head of television programmes, Cecil McGivern, wrote on 29 September, 1953: "The lay-out also give me the feeling that, though thought has been given to the subject of a magazine programme in television, there just are no new ideas forthcoming and that the thing is tending to fall to pieces."
"C.P.Tel (McGivern) has vetoed film criticism in any shape or form, because he feels that we should not do anything to help the film industry until they become a little more helpful to television", Miller Jones lamented.
McGivern cancelled the second edition, meaning it was a full month before the second Panorama was aired.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/panorama/50th_birthday/3155142.stm   (834 words)

  
 Great Expectations (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What many consider the best version, and certainly the most popular, was made in 1946 starring John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness.
The movie was adapted by Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh, and directed by Lean.
It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay.
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 eBay.co.uk - cecil, Art, Non-Fiction Books, Antiquarian Books Pre-1940 items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments DVD 2 Discs New 
Time exposure, Cecil Beaton Peter Quenell 1941, 1st edn 
CECIL GEE XL DARK GREY COTTON MENS SHIRT 
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 eBay.co.uk - cecil, cecil Non-Fiction Books, Auto Biography, Transportation, History items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
ALFRISTON A Sussex Downland Village by A. Cecil Piper 
CECIL B. DEMILLE BIOGRAPHY by CHARLES HIGHAM 1976 P/B 
CECIL ROBERTS, Autobiog, C 1960, The Years of Promise 
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 Television Heaven | The Appleyards
Interestingly, the younger actors were replaced during the series run in order to maintain a constant age for the children, suggesting that although regarded as an ongoing series, time stood still in 'Appleyard World'.
Although the series was popular with the viewing public it's title was not to the liking of everyone, especially the then Controller of Programmes, Cecil McGivern, who suggested it sounded like 'suet pudding with a dash of cement.'
The series ended in 1957 following around 160 broadcasts of what is best described as the trivial ups and downs of a nice suburban family, worlds apart from the dramatic and often traumatic lifestyles that latter day soap characters lead as an obligatory requirement.
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 Cecil McGivern -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cecil McGivern -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
From 1950 to 1957, he was the Controller of the (Click link for more info and facts about BBC Television Service) BBC Television Service.
Controller of (Click link for more info and facts about BBC Television Service) BBC Television Service
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 eBay.co.uk - cecil, cecil Books, Comics Magazines, Non-Fiction Books, Antiquarian Books Pre-1940, Fiction Books items ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A TERRACE IN THE SUN Cecil Roberts 1951 1st Ed HB 
BACHELORS : Washington IRVING : Cecil ALDIN : 1909 1st 
Cecil Aldin ill Happy Family No 1V Rags 1921H/B 
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 DigiGuide : Cecil McGivern
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 Quaker Queries
I also have a book detailing a true story (written in 1873) of a William Brown from Brown'd Ford near Cecil County Md. (Neighboring the Lancaster County Line)who assited two fugitive slaves named John and Mary who also had a son named Charlie.) There were also numerous Brown's in Little Britain Twp.
I also have a book detailing a true story (written in 1873) of a William Brown from Brown's Ford near Cecil County Md. (Neighboring the Lancaster County Line)who assited two fugitive slaves named John and Mary who also had a son named Charlie.
Isobel (Bella) Chambers was born in 1896, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Chambers (nee McGivern) They owned a farm in Ballinphellic, Dunderrow, Cork, Ireland.
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 Great Expectations
Lean was inspired by Alec Guiness' theatrical play, which he saw, and without which he claimed he would never have made the film (2).
Five scriptwriters who worked on the adaptation, producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havellock-Allan, Cecil McGivern (then Head of Drama at the BBC), actress Kay Walsh and Lean, converted the richness and intricacy of Dickens' novel into a condensed cinematic narrative and transformed his protagonists into potent screen characters.
As Pauline Kael points out, "[T]he film is emotional, exciting, full of action; sequences are planned in terms of heightened dramatic contrasts and scary tensions." (3)
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 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | Panorama history
Panorama began life at 8.15pm on Wednesday, 11 November, 1953.
It was planned to be fortnightly, but poor reviews led to it being immediately taken off the air by the controller of television programmes, Cecil McGivern, for a hurried revamp.
When it returned a month later, the original presenter was gone and BBC stalwart, Max Robertson, had taken his place.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/programmes/panorama/3120392.stm   (698 words)

  
 Preface to "JUNCTION X"
I want one day to stand in that van again and listen while the hundred years of history that have gone into the making of those few miles of track are brought to life.
And I want one day to go back to Junction X. CECIL McGIVERN
Onward to the first "scene" of the broadcast (13KB)
freespace.virgin.net /neil.worthington/jx/preface.htm   (816 words)

  
 January 2005 Events at Writers&Books
Join Democrat and Chronicle film critic Jack Garner for a discussion and screening of a critically acclaimed film.
Screenplay by David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allen, Cecil McGivern, Kay Walsh
Immediately grabbing the audience’s attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean fully realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens’ classic 1861 novel, and the result is not only one of the finest literary adaptations ever made but also one of the greatest British films of all time.
www.wab.org /events/2005_01.shtml   (1269 words)

  
 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century by Leonard Maltin
Oscars went to cinematographer Guy Green and art director John Bryan.
Lean, Kay Walsh, Cecil McGivern, and producers Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame all contributed to script.
Simple, realistic tale of working-man whose job depends on his bicycle, and the shattering week he spends with his young son after it is stolen.
www.filmsite.org /maltin.html   (3024 words)

  
 ChiaroScuro DVD-Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Screenplay: Anthony Havelock-Allan, Kay Walsh, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Cecil McGivern (from the novel by Charles Dickens)
Starring: John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Ivor Barnard, Freda Jackson, Eileen Erskine, George Hayes, Hay Petrie, John Forrest
Visually flawless, perfectly paced, it's a small masterpiece.
www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/dvd-collection/details/page461.html   (223 words)

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