I'm a 2000's primary school person so I don't think we ever watched any school programs (until secondary school where we watched an ancient sex education programe which might have been recorded off the TV) The only videos I remember watching at primary school were films.
We did have that type of telly through - we watched the Queen Mother funeral on it along with films and bits of the 2002 world Cup.
Sorry to bump this up but just to say I've got the tv listings from the day of the final ITV Schools on Channel 4 (Monday 28th June 1993) I will post them on the day itself to mark the 25th anniversary. Sorry for the tease
Bit weird ending on a Monday but its normal programming on Channel 4 from Tuesday to Friday of that week.
Seems unusual to end it on a Monday. Wouldn't it have been neater to end it on either the previous Friday 25th, the following Friday July 2nd or neatly at the end of the month on the Wednesday? Although I presume there was a perfectly valid reason why it ended on the Monday?
The Summer Term nearly always ended on a Monday after the introduction of the early May bank holiday. From the second week in May, many of Monday’s programmes would be repeats of those shown later in the previous week.
Poking about on YouTube I notice the S4C roto animate out to the clock is very sloppily done.
at 4:56 the reflections from S4C on the bottom of the front logo suddenly grow in size and ultimately disappear behind the bottom bar. I mean yeah okay on the regular ITV rainbow glides the shadow would have done the same but it was ultimately covered up to a degree by the fading out and appearance of the clock - Central clearly paid attention to little things like that and they clearly loved their graphics and graphic capabilities.
I presume this S4C package was cobbled together after the 1987 launch and done by S4C themselves, as I'm sure they also had to make their own version of the ITV Schools hold by rotoscoping out the Channel 4 logo to replace it with their own.
There used to be a page on James Hudson’s tvschools site (later amalgamated with TV Ark) that explained how S4C had to adapt the completed Channel 4 roto and clock sequences for their channel. It concentrated mainly on the ITV Schools on S4C version rather than the S4C Ysgolion one, but did explain to a point how this was done, and why the resulting sequences weren’t as slick as the Channel 4 counterparts. Perhaps the page can still be found using Wayback, or similar.
As for the snippet of the ITV Schools on 4 roto at the start of that clip (which I had a job spotting!) this was of course a totally separate issue due to S4C working off the dirty C4 feed.
Would there have been any particular reason why Central couldn't have sent a clean copy without a Channel 4 logo on it to S4C, or was it a decision they made themselves to have their own version of the 3D rotomotion?
Central clearly paid attention to little things like that and they clearly loved their graphics and graphic capabilities.
I presume this S4C package was cobbled together after the 1987 launch and done by S4C themselves, as I'm sure they also had to make their own version of the ITV Schools hold by rotoscoping out the Channel 4 logo to replace it with their own.
As you say, S4C had to fudge their own version from the C4 one. In those circumstances, and bearing in mind the kit available 30+ years ago I think we can forgive it being a bit rough around the edges.
I presume they just rendered it with the Channel 4 logo burnt in, and with the amount of time and money it must have cost to re-render it without the logo back in 1987 I imagine they didn't consider it worth it.
The Summer Term nearly always ended on a Monday after the introduction of the early May bank holiday. From the second week in May, many of Monday’s programmes would be repeats of those shown later in the previous week.
Something to bear in mind is that school term dates were far less standardised across the nation in the 1970s and 80s than they are today. Many schools in Lancashire used to have a week off in June during Wakes Week instead of the usual half term in May.
