BBC & Ravensbourne University Motion Graphics Archive

That was more of an experiment as they had the screen space, as that credit style was only ever used on EastEnders and was designed for BBC One's (admittedly half-arsed) ECP design, as no other programmes used it, not even the omnibus, so it was a bit strange really.

BBC Three didn't have an ECP of its own, though it did use the later "corporate" one, which was later spoofed in a Screenwipe segment:

Even some of the very familiar stuff on there is interesting because of all the information included in the text. For example, I must've seen this one so many times but until now never noticed that the candles show how long it took to animate:

https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/christmas-2-ident-1993

The description on that one is slightly off, that isn't the studio at Alexandra Palace, it's Pres B


Could that have been the demo version of the theme supplied to the graphic designers to sync the animation to before the full mix was ready?

There's no practical reason why they couldn't have launched at 03:03:03, BBC Three used to have programmes on past 3am most nights as BBC Four still does.

If you watch(ed) overnight you'd have seen that the BBC Three/Four caption stays in air until the kids channels started at 5:30am

It's just a bit of a silly idea though

Now that's a hell of a thing. That it has the wording as "BBC Children's" that was used briefly when the service launched before changing to "Children's BBC" suggests it's a pre-launch design that was dropped rather than a replacement for the BBC Micro version.

Did they get this designed then realise that they didn't have the budget for VT/Telecine to play it out, so they went for the BBC Micro version (clearly based on the same design) instead?

I think there was a time where BBC Three just kept going and was still on air after 5am (with programmes, not the holding slide), long after BBC Four had gone to bed (so to speak). I'll have to go back through Genome/programmes and double check when that was the case.

Oooh that wavy childrens word reminds me of citv from 1989!!!

Thanks for this.

https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/bbc-news-24-trail-1999

Back in the days when life was so simple.

There are some dates a bit awry. I swear this trail launched in 2006 when the Ten started simulcasting on News 24, not 2003.

https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/bbc-news-24-clock-sting-2003

There's also an Andy Pandy title sequence labelled as 1950. But it's in colour, so it's actually the 1970 version.

Firecracker is labelled 1993 despite being the 16:9 1997 logo version

There’s also a kids programme (I forget which) which when you click on it is actually the 999 titles, though mistakes are bound to creep into a collection that size.