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JB
JasonB
"Warley, Birmingham"? A classic example of whichever part of Warley Mr Davies was from being too small or obscure for anybody outside the region to actually know, so its easier to say he comes from Birmingham because everybody knows where Birmingham is - they wouldn't have the foggiest about anything more local than that... Although Warley hasn't existed as, well, anything really since 1974, its one of those historical names that is still floating around today. Royal Mail kept insisting Warley was part of the postal address for years afterwards, well into the 1990s at least.

Anyway that aside, interesting to see style clashes that you tend to see in the 1970s, you have a "big" 70's style font and a smaller Gill Sans number font, presented in the style of an old school style train departure board, and a totally pointless clock for the assault course, because lets be honest, who cares if they can run it in 84 seconds? You get the 10 points if you do it in two minutes or two days providing you cross the line first. Wasn't particularly camera friendly though, looks like they were covering a horse race!


Going back to Cleops channel they have uploaded more full episodes starting from episode 2. Those big graphics are quite something aren't they?
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Going back to Cleops channel they have uploaded more full episodes starting from episode 2. Those big graphics are quite something aren't they?


Interesting to note how graphic tendencies have evolved though over the years. Big, chunky graphics you can read from the other side of town in a lot of 1970s programming to what we have today.

I suppose it could be argued most households in the late 1970s didn't have a TV bigger than possibly 22" at the most, and the graphics only look massive now because they would have been normal size at the time?
IT
IndigoTucker
It was also MUCH harder to make graphics back then, physically using rub-on transfers or printing blocks, and pointing a TV camera on them. They also flickered a lot if too small.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Why would they flicker if they were too small? And how "small" was too small?
IT
IndigoTucker
Due to the nature of interlaced television, if parts of the text In the same area are on one field, but not the next, due to it being located on the next line down, flickering results. That’s a bad explanation, perhaps someone else can clarify. And you see it on quite large text, but only on edges. Smaller text has more chance if flickering,
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PI
pip2
It seems they wanted to give the impression that a computer was generating the on-screen results so they animated them on film, it's quite a jittery outcome. Would have been easier and smoother to have just revealled each line of text by pulling a mask out of the way. But that would have meant a swipe rather than type-on effect... I admire the dedication.

Also, don't remember the assault course ever being anything other than in a straight line, or the handicap being a staggered start rather than everyone starting at the same point but at different times.
SC
Si-Co
I love the original version of the Krypton Factor theme. I think it was updated at least twice before the Art of Noise version in 1986. Unsure if it’s original or library.
PH
Philheybrookbay
Can you spot the barman at number 3 on the Kyrpton Factor????

Laughing
TM
ToasterMan
On a souvenir mag that came with the first Radio Times for 1988, (published in the last days of 1987), the then new Michael Peters BBC corporate logo makes an extremely early (second?) appearance:
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SO
Soupnzi
Just look at how good Dobson and Day look together. Sir Robin would have made a fantastic landlord at the Queen Vic.

‘The gentleman at the back- yes, you sir- get out of my pub’
IS
Inspector Sands
See For Yourself was an annual publication reviewing the previous year's BBC. I suppose its modern day equivalent is the BBC Annual Review.

It was also a discussion programme hosted by Sue Lawley which had filmed reports on things jn the review and let members of the public ask questions to management. A bit like a more serious Open Air
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Found this at the end of an old videotape, screencap and video:
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Also found this on another tape today, extracted primarily for the BBC Two ident but the Radio 5 trailer may be of interest to some and the football trailer has a couple of archive pieces of "look" too.
(Video features Stuart Hall):


Found some other relatively interesting things that I'll put up on my channel at some point, but unless something really fascinating or unique turns up I'm not going to clog this thread up every time I upload, that's what YouTube subscriptions are for Smile
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