Bat's wings 60th anniversary

On Monday it'll be sixty years since BBC-TV introduced its first animated symbol, the famous mechanical "bat's wings", designed by Abram Games.

A report about the history of BBC idents is slated to air on Monday and will include an interview with Martin Lambie-Nairn.

@aldupres No: it's pegged to 60th anni on Mon of first BBC ident designed by Abram Games #idents

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Nice - thanks for flagging this up.

A model of the logo appears on the top of TV Centre in this artists impression. Presumably they got rid of the symbol before the building was finished

Yes, it was replaced with this in the late 1950s:
http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/bbcone/images_idents/1960s/bbctv_zcars_promo_a.jpg

I have seen in some photos that the 1991 BBC1 and BBC2 logos were actually put underneath the windows on that stairs block with the clock, so they did eventually do something similar. They mustn't have been there for long though as there are so few photos of them.

They were there a few years I think, taken down when the new branding was introduced in 1997.

There might not be many photos (during the recent TVC nostalgia I've not seen many of the multicoloured Television Centre sign either) but they appeared on air quite a bit I think. In fact I can't find it on YouTube but I think they appear on episode 1 of I'm Alan Partridge

Is there a possibility anyone could do a colour version of the Batwings?

An example of both the multi coloured sign and BBC1 and 2 logos courtesy of The Sun:

http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/01672/bbc620_1672770a.jpg

Here's a genuine article:

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/exp_colour/ctc_1955_320.jpg

I think that's the only colour batwings. I would like to see one with the same colours but slimiar to the original black and white ident (without the lady, the top BBC, the words colour and television removed and the change of colour from the bottom one to white).

But that ain't possible unless someone created a mock.

Is that a testcard?