Sorry if this has been mentioned or not but during one of the Brucie Night programmes on BBC2 yesterday. They showed a BBC1 ident which introduced The Generation game. It was a hybrid of the 1969 ident and the one launched in 1974. Instead of a blue globe it was yellow. Was this a mock?
I asked this on The Mausoleum Club. All I got were all the self-professed experts saying they didn't understand my surprise.
As I pointed out on TMC, the normally coloured globe is easy to get footage of - just by pulling it off a Monty Python episode. Even if they had reverted to a Film Recording and had miscoloured it, you'd have thought it would be white on blue again like "Sounds of the Sixties". But it wasn't either of these.
As I also pointed out, the BBC1NI documentary "Window on the World" proved that the /B/B/C/1/ COLOUR ident for NI was indeed transmitted white on blue at some time, as the transmission gallery was filmed whilst the ident was going out, and although the film was grainy, the colour scheme was clear to see.
My question therefore was, could these 'fictional' colour schemes have in fact been used in reality? Given that an alternate cylinder '2' ident has been found on tape (black b/g instead of blue) and an alternate 1972 style '2' (purple '2' on black background with white ---COLOUR--- strap), then perhaps it is probable that the yellow on blue colour scheme was tried on the Mk I globe before that colour scheme was implemented onto the Mk II globe now commonly associated with it?
Could be a possibility. It actually looked quite good in yellow.
They were showing the first Generation Game which I think was either 1973 or 1974, so I assume the CA was from that period. So when did COLOUR change font and turn into
COLOUR
?
Could be a possibility. It actually looked quite good in yellow.
They were showing the first Generation Game which I think was either 1973 or 1974, so I assume the CA was from that period. So when did COLOUR change font and turn into
COLOUR
?
This is very confusing. It's possible that they only had the audio of the announcement, and had to add the globe footage. They probably wouldn't think to grab the ident from a Python episode, so just wrongly coloured some B+W footage of the first mirror globe. I doubt very much that anybody involved in making these programmes is THAT bothered about getting it right.
