In season 2 that all the housemates were playing up or getting the camera to move and Peter Abbott (EP/ BB) told all the camera operators not to respond and after a little bit the housemates gave up, they were called to the Dairy room and basically told to stop it.Season 1 was kind of lax, there were these big outdoor cameras that had a little windscreen wiper and that they would ask them to swish out of boredomthen I think all visible cameras disappeared 2 years after that cause they got sick of people playing up to and talking to them. It didn’t feel as attention seeking as these days though.
Then in 03 they got rid of all the visible cameras, in my opinion that's the best thing they ever did (DID YOU GET THAT SARAH)
