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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 22, 2021 0:30:06 GMT
I'm not sure if this is also a rarity: BBC1 Wales 1987
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 22, 2021 14:34:10 GMT
Here's a couple of festive idents from LWT. LWT (1985) - Credit: Neil Miles LWT (1994) - Credit: Ed Stradling/ The TV Musuem
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 22, 2021 17:38:36 GMT
The biggest find this year is video footage of the 1976 BBC1 Christmas ident, which until now only existed as a brief Super 8 clip. Earlier this year Rob Collis found a short clip, but unfortunately it had a lot of noise; then subsequently Ed Stradling of the TV Museum found another clip which had less noise but was full of dropouts. The restored footage is only a second long, but at least we have this tanatlizing fragment to go by, which is much better in quality than what we had previously. BBC1 (1976) - Credit: Ed Stradling/ The TV Musuem
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 22, 2021 21:44:44 GMT
I was looking at a compilation of the BBC1 Christmas idents on You Tube yesterday.
The earliest one I remember were the Victorian skaters from 1981.
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 22, 2021 22:18:55 GMT
The Victorian Skaters ident was from 1980, the Xmas BBC1 ident for 81' was a set of multicolour baubles.
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Post by garygraham on Dec 23, 2021 12:52:13 GMT
Just found the latter part of a 1983 closedown last night. What a beautiful ident this was.
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 23, 2021 21:41:08 GMT
The Victorian Skaters ident was from 1980, the Xmas BBC1 ident for 81' was a set of multicolour baubles. OK I must be out by a year then!
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 6, 2022 13:45:58 GMT
Now it's December again, the Christmas idents are all over (most) television stations again. Recently I came across this facinating article about BBC designer Sid Sutton who was involved with the presentation department during the 1960's and 1970's. In his collection, he has preserved a good number of slides, which would have been the method to promote upcoming programs in the pre-computer age. There are numerous and facinating examples from this era which could be seen in this article here: www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/sid-suttonThere's two images of interest that caught my eye, colour slides of the BBC1 and BBC2 Christmas idents from (c.1969); it's quite intriguing that he preserved these live idents as slides, the BBC1 example also exists as B&W telesnap, whilst the BBC2 example I was never aware of until now. BBC1 (1969) - Credit: Sid Sutton BBC2 (1969) - Credit: Sid Sutton
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 24, 2022 22:58:19 GMT
Kaleidocscope have recently uploaded a Christmas Eve closedown from BBC1 Cymru Walaes in 1980. Which is notable as it features the only known footage of the BBC Wales Christmas ident from that year and the earliest surviving example of an Christmas ident from that region. Coincidentally there's also a recording from the network BBC1 closedown from the same day.
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 28, 2022 13:17:37 GMT
Here's another recent find, an ITV Christmas promo from 1973, featuring the likes of 'Carry on Christmas', 'All Star Comedy Carnival', 'Tommy Cooper's Christmas' and 'The Benny Hill Show'. All shows of which already exist on "2 VT in the archives. This is by far the earliest extant Christmas promo I've seen from ITV, and the earliest to exist in colour.
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Post by mattchurchett on Dec 29, 2022 14:22:03 GMT
This thread has inspired me to look through some of my oldest VHS recordings.
Among them, I found a Christmas Eve trailer for BBC1 and a Christmas Day trailer for ITV.
Any idea what the archive status of these is? I know this thread mainly mentions the idents, but I thought these trailers may be of interest too.
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Nov 20, 2023 15:24:26 GMT
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Post by garygraham on Nov 22, 2023 13:53:48 GMT
Here's another recent find, an ITV Christmas promo from 1973, featuring the likes of 'Carry on Christmas', 'All Star Comedy Carnival', 'Tommy Cooper's Christmas' and 'The Benny Hill Show'. All shows of which already exist on "2 VT in the archives. This is by far the earliest extant Christmas promo I've seen from ITV, and the earliest to exist in colour. Looks like the "Christmas on" lettering was generated by Scanimate or something similar. As used on some of the American titles for the ATV series "Thriller" at around that same time.
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Post by richardwoods on Nov 22, 2023 15:42:10 GMT
Slightly OT by a few months but does anyone know if the "Autumn on ITV" promo with the memorable "segmented leaves" and music survive. 1976 I think but could be a year out either way?
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Post by Mike Goldwater on Dec 1, 2023 11:22:27 GMT
Here's some very rare footage of the 1976 BBC1 Christmas ident, plus a continuity slide. These brief fragments are from the 25th/26th December and are one of few known examples of this ident known to be in existence.
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