The "cell" wasn't originally listed on April 1st was it?
As others have said - the original animation was most definitely electronic and video sourced - rather than computer animation rendered to film and telecined back to video. One of my favourites as well.
(Also isn't it 90 degrees rotated in the film frame? It is orientated as if it were a still rather than movie frame?)
How about telecine slide scanners though? As used for fault / address / credit captions, etc. until the late 80s though? Didn't they use horizontal orientation?
I remember once seeing definitely optical slides on CBBC even sometime in 1991, btw. whenever the occupant of the broom cupboard was reading out competition addresses. I remember thinking at the time, "why are they still using slides"?
Doesn't mean I think that e-Bay item is authentic, but I'm sure other companies WILL have had film versions of computer generated idents. Central certainly did, as another example. STV's CGI thistle, and as stated, YTV's "liquid gold" idents, were mastered both onto 35mm AND 1" videotape at the facility houses at the time.
No such thing as a "telecine slide scanner", I'm afraid! Okay, so I'm being pedantic over nomenclature...
Yes, it *could* potentially be a genuine slide, but then they're not too hard to come by; they were widely supplied by broadcasters to third parties (e.g. newspapers and so on). And if it *is* a slide, why did the seller try and pass it off as something it couldn't possibly be?
Anyone ever won any rare/odd/obscure television merchandise on Ebay?
Well I won a BBC Southern Ways Video. I have never seen it in a shop and it's about 7 years old. The Video is presented by Sally Taylor and Harry Gration.
