Reminiscing The Big Breakfast

I've always thought of those titles as the brick house and the lines are clearly there. Talking of which how much of those titles were real and how much was animated? Feels like they may have filmed the fly in but then enhanced the house. The angles were certainly slightly different between the yellow and brick version.

Admittedly when you mix in VHS quality, compression artifacts, de-interlacing and scaling, which a video like that has all four of in abundance, it's not suprising details like that might disappear.

Anyone looked at those screenocean videos that were mentioned a couple of months back, taken from the master tapes?

The bricks are a completely different colour to the brown. In closeup pictures of the brick look you can clearly see it’s a good paint job with different hues in the (reddish) paint which forms the base for the bricks, giving it a realistic appearance. I think it’s just the SD quality of the wide shots in the opening titles that’s washing out the brick effect, as the house in the titles is definitely not the same colour as the interim “brown” house.

I always thought the house needed an extra window above the front door. It would've broken up that big expanse of "brickwork".

Signs of the living room revamp have begun in this image. The brickwork around the fireside has appeared with the '97 decor still in place here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRVZCnllWF/

It must've been about that time you could see shots of the back balcony being dismantled. They (Phil and Mel) did a daily competition beneath it. The lights had been removed from the balcony so it was darker, and you could see wires hanging down.

Since this place is becoming a read-only archive from tonight, I've created a new thread over at TVLF as a continuation of this one.
See you there!