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That does make the most sense, although I seem to remember reading or hearing sonewhere that they used the machine which was normally used to generate live football scores on a Saturday to do the hands. Now I may have imagined this, or the source may have been dodgy.
In a related ore, during World Cup '94, the next set of titles were in use and the News was delayed until 11:15. By that time they used a real recording of the Houses of Parliament and the clock rather than CGI. On this occasion, they filmed a new shot of the clock showing 11:15, although it was from ground level rather than above. There were no references to News at Ten and any graphics with "News at Ten" on them were reedited.
A few years later the news was late again but they just called it News at Ten and used the normal titles.
I can't imagine ITN could tie their vision mixer, a DVE, and a caption generator to timecode from a VT replay of a blurred set of titles to render a set of clock hands. Not in 1988 anyway. I stand to be corrected of course but I'd have thought a selection of titles with clock hands at 00, 01, 02 etc would be far more likely, with the gallery choosing the one most appropriate.
That does make the most sense, although I seem to remember reading or hearing sonewhere that they used the machine which was normally used to generate live football scores on a Saturday to do the hands. Now I may have imagined this, or the source may have been dodgy.
In a related ore, during World Cup '94, the next set of titles were in use and the News was delayed until 11:15. By that time they used a real recording of the Houses of Parliament and the clock rather than CGI. On this occasion, they filmed a new shot of the clock showing 11:15, although it was from ground level rather than above. There were no references to News at Ten and any graphics with "News at Ten" on them were reedited.
A few years later the news was late again but they just called it News at Ten and used the normal titles.