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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 20, 2021 21:52:32 GMT
Most ITV regions seemed to drop mentions of colour when the franchises were changed in 1982, though Granada & Thames seemed to keep mentioning it on their endcaps into the 1980s.
I've heard before American TV screenings of The Wizard of Oz it would normally be announced that the start & end of the film would be in black & white.
When older films were a common way for BBC2 to fill up afternoons, there would often be complaints about the number of black & white ones shown.
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Post by John Green on Dec 20, 2021 22:06:31 GMT
Most ITV regions seemed to drop mentions of colour when the franchises were changed in 1982, though Granada & Thames seemed to keep mentioning it on their endcaps into the 1980s. I've heard before American TV screenings of The Wizard of Oz it would normally be announced that the start & end of the film would be in black & white. Hardly A Matter of Life and Death.
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Post by Richard Marple on Dec 21, 2021 15:36:46 GMT
Most ITV regions seemed to drop mentions of colour when the franchises were changed in 1982, though Granada & Thames seemed to keep mentioning it on their endcaps into the 1980s. I've heard before American TV screenings of The Wizard of Oz it would normally be announced that the start & end of the film would be in black & white. Hardly A Matter of Life and Death. Not really, but some people might think they TV had stopped displaying in colour! Before colour TV became common some people were confused by the horse of a different colour scene, as it wasn't obvious that the horse was changing colour! Oddly A Matter of Life and Death does a similar trick with the amount of colour on display, with reality in colour & heaven in black & white.
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Post by rebeccajansen on Dec 24, 2021 2:06:51 GMT
I've heard stories about antenna interference in the very early days of television, the early '50s, which I never experienced first-hand... such things as large vehicle engines causing issues. I think later these problems were addressed and overcome. I also remember my grandparents' colour set, big wooden cabinet thing, being rather violet and bright green... they had gotten it in 1967, one of the first to get one (we got our first colour set circa 1976). I do remember tv and radio repair and service shops going from an almost every other block reality to well, none at this point. I even have a very vague memories of somebody in a uniform coming to adjust the tuning or something on one set when I was very little.
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Post by Dan S on Jan 7, 2022 17:07:00 GMT
At school in the 70's they used to wheel out the "school tv" (I assume all schools at this time were issued with the same sort of tv, with the cardboard shades to shade the screen from the sun but which weren't always very effective when the sensible thing would have been to move the to a different corner of the room and turn the screen away from the sun) and they used to show us one of those programmes for schools. At the start of the programme the caption would say "BBC Colour" and we'd all cheer when that caption came up, then all go "awwwwwww" when the programme started and it was b&w - because it was a b&w set. The next time we were shown one of those programmes and the Colour caption came up we'd repeat our behaviour even though we knew it was a b&w set. The teacher must have got bored of us doing that every single time but we obviously thought it was fun.
At home we rented a tv. B&W at first, and then we got a colour one (also rented) sometime in the late 70's. It was always breaking down but the repair man was always prompt. One time there'd been something wrong with the picture and after the repair man had left we discovered that although the picture was now good there was no sound! We panicked because we'd not be able to watch tv that evening until 10-year-old me suggested we plug in an old b&w portable we had, and put it alongside and use it for the sound, and we were able to watch tv that evening. When the repair man came round again it only took a few seconds to fix because it was literally one wire that hadn't been reconnected.
Another time the top part of the picture gradually got narrower and narrower over the course of a week so in the end everyone had elongated cone-heads.
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Post by markboulton on Jan 9, 2022 0:51:11 GMT
Ah yes, Tandberg TVs (their Series 12 open reel tape recorders were standard school issue for recording radio programmes too).
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Post by garygraham on Jan 9, 2022 6:04:42 GMT
I've seen one of those colour filters with blue at the top, orange in the middle & green at the bottom, probably only good for long outdoor shots in the summer. I think it's referenced in a sitcom. Maybe On the Buses? Of course, once you had a colour set, you could start complaining about "too many black and white repeats" thus encouraging the destruction of older programmes. Were there really announcements at one time to the effect that "The following programme was made in black and white; do not adjust your set"? There's a joke about that in "End of Part One" around 1979. "This film was made in black and white... and all the other colours." Which suggests it was a standard announcement?
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Post by John Green on Jan 9, 2022 10:16:30 GMT
I always like it in b&w sitcoms when, say, Laura/Mary has been to the hairdresser to 'go blond'. Our first hint that something's gone wrong is the audience erupting, followed by best friend Millie's "Laura...your hair's GREEN ?" when the headscarf's removed. (See also George's wife in the Formby classic Turned Out Nice Again ).
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Post by Dan S on Jan 10, 2022 17:00:46 GMT
Ah yes, Tandberg TVs (their Series 12 open reel tape recorders were standard school issue for recording radio programmes too). They were still playing us stuff off a reel to reel machine into the early 80's. Presumably it was easier to keep on using it rather than change to cassette, although they must have done at some point surely? Everything they played us was voiced by a guy called Geoffrey Wheeler (He always announced his name at the start.)
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Post by markboulton on Jan 11, 2022 9:19:21 GMT
I always like it in b&w sitcoms when, say, Laura/Mary has been to the hairdresser to 'go blond'. Our first hint that something's gone wrong is the audience erupting, followed by best friend Millie's "Laura...your hair's GREEN ?" when the headscarf's removed. (See also George's wife in the Formby classic Turned Out Nice Again ). Quite an apt example, Mr. Green! Had she visited Lord Percy from Blackadder II? 😏
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Post by markboulton on Jan 11, 2022 9:32:12 GMT
Yes, in the early 1970s some stations would flash up a caption at the start of an old film "this was made in B/W" ... Granada in the early 90s would put up a caption saying "Sorry not in Stereo" if they or ITV were showing a well-known feature film but from a mono print.
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