Molly Brownless

Molly Brownless camera operator. From a production of “Coppelia: Act 2” – 30 Jun 1947, featuring The Metropolitan Ballet. Molly Brownless (née Heritage, later Frood) was the first female television camera operator at the first BBC studies at Alexandra Palace. She operated an Emitron camera in Studio B on the day the BBC studios opened after the Second World War in June 1946, the day before the London Victory Parade.

Early life Molly Heritage was born in 1920 in Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands Mr & Mrs Thomas Heritage. Her father was an engineer. She later attended Erdington Secondary School and sang in the Birmingham City Choir.

Early career Molly was an engineer who initially worked with radio transmitters at Droitwich transmitting station

She had a daughter Eileen.