Here are some notes from my time at BBC TVC and BBC regions ...you'll have to read them in reverse order to get the chronological way I wrote them!....
Prior to this point in the evening the announcer also ran the network - rolling vts, vision mixing, and of-course announcing whilst keeping split second timing. Unlike roles in ITV.
There was a similar set up for BBC2 using different colours. The same desks and Noddy doubled for both BBC 2 and Open University. Some nimble switching was required from the announcer going between these two networks including a change of Noddy position, change of colours, the triggering of the disc revolve for the two logos via a foot pedal, and OU jingle off an audio cart.
At Television Centre it was housed in the BBC1 Noddy cupboard. Noddy was the name of a remotely operated camera. It panned and tilted towards different captions which were selectable on both the network one and announcer's control desks. You therefore could not cut between such captions and had to fade down and up whilst Noddy moved.
The world was a ping pong sized white ball covered in black Indian ink markings with a concave mirror behind it. A small motor turned it. Each BBC region had its own version.
The rotating globe on a mercantor style projection didn't start until the late 70's. In 1973 it was just the globe on its own if I remember correctly.
That is a good idea. I am German, and the German Television used to play the national anthem on television at the end of the day since 1985, but stopped it to play a couple of years ago. God save the Queen and Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (Unity and Justice and Freedom)
This is the second BBC1 Mirror Globe Model. Although it's still the same as1969 did, the rhomboids on BBC1 Logo became rounded and the font for the word "COLOUR" became Italic. Lasted from 1972-1974.
Not quite, as I remember. There are, I believe, two official BBC versions of the National Anthem, the "triumphant" one, as heard here, and the "sombre" one, a more mournful arrangement, which was heard at closedown on that day in 1997.
Actually, Mark, it is the sombre and sad version. I heard this slower version in a clip here on YouTube from when BBC1 signed off it's schedule in 1997 on the night Princess Diana died. =S
richkennett, it's the BBC1 Mirror Globe! The "reflected reversed flat map" was its background behind the mirror! The spherical globe had spun from left to right!
it does drag on a bit...but the version used for my local ITV company (Grampian) used to last even longer, and they kept using that right up till 1988...
I had to stand when this was playing
Glenn1967ful 1 month ago
the 1984 version is better.
geekgirltv2011 6 months ago
Here are some notes from my time at BBC TVC and BBC regions ...you'll have to read them in reverse order to get the chronological way I wrote them!....
Prior to this point in the evening the announcer also ran the network - rolling vts, vision mixing, and of-course announcing whilst keeping split second timing. Unlike roles in ITV.
Voice2pic 7 months ago
There was a similar set up for BBC2 using different colours. The same desks and Noddy doubled for both BBC 2 and Open University. Some nimble switching was required from the announcer going between these two networks including a change of Noddy position, change of colours, the triggering of the disc revolve for the two logos via a foot pedal, and OU jingle off an audio cart.
Voice2pic 7 months ago
The Noddy set up was actually black and white. This was then electronically processed to create the blue, white and yellow.
Voice2pic 7 months ago
At Television Centre it was housed in the BBC1 Noddy cupboard. Noddy was the name of a remotely operated camera. It panned and tilted towards different captions which were selectable on both the network one and announcer's control desks. You therefore could not cut between such captions and had to fade down and up whilst Noddy moved.
Voice2pic 7 months ago
The world was a ping pong sized white ball covered in black Indian ink markings with a concave mirror behind it. A small motor turned it. Each BBC region had its own version.
Voice2pic 7 months ago
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Isn't the globe going the wrong way round????!!
Yes. I believe management thought it would look better if the world went the opposite way.
Voice2pic 7 months ago
Cheerio & Good Night, viewers!
TimelordR 10 months ago
Should one be standing up to view this? Discuss...
MrDirtybear 1 year ago 3
Can anybody find the Clock, and Globe, at the beginning, of closedown.
JHollowayNetwork 1 year ago
A rather slow and funereal version of the National Anthem.
UKSazzy67 1 year ago 2
This was shortly before the slightly faster national anthem was introduced in the BBC1 closedowns.
redsnapper1959 1 year ago
Youtube thinks the music is from a Monty Python album.. classic...
SPTSuperSprinter156 1 year ago 7
The rotating globe on a mercantor style projection didn't start until the late 70's. In 1973 it was just the globe on its own if I remember correctly.
taaqen 2 years ago
@taaqen apparently this logo was used from 1969 until 1974. Up until the mid-80's the same design was used but a different colour.
octomonkey1980 1 year ago
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UKSazzy67 2 years ago
BRITISH broadcasting company,people were more patriotic then.
Joe90ridesahonda 2 years ago 5
This is obviously a mock-up, but a good one at that.
UKSazzy67 2 years ago
Let's all stand for the National Anthem. (Before bed.)
darganx 2 years ago 2
That is a good idea. I am German, and the German Television used to play the national anthem on television at the end of the day since 1985, but stopped it to play a couple of years ago. God save the Queen and Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (Unity and Justice and Freedom)
PeerGynt1111 2 years ago
This is the second BBC1 Mirror Globe Model. Although it's still the same as1969 did, the rhomboids on BBC1 Logo became rounded and the font for the word "COLOUR" became Italic. Lasted from 1972-1974.
exploder76 3 years ago 2
Does this clip originate with the BBC themselves, or from someone who owned one of the first home VCRs in the early 70s?
AdorableRuffian 3 years ago 2
It's a mock-up. One of the first video recordings wouldn't survive in this quality and the BBC certainly wouldn't keep anything like this.
AidanLunn 3 years ago
This Was Played When Diana Princess OF Wales Has Died
Jimwoodward1212 3 years ago 3
Not quite, as I remember. There are, I believe, two official BBC versions of the National Anthem, the "triumphant" one, as heard here, and the "sombre" one, a more mournful arrangement, which was heard at closedown on that day in 1997.
marksoutof10 3 years ago 7
well this is the sombre one.
AidanLunn 3 years ago
No, it isn't. This is the more "lively" arrangement; compare it with the sombre version, as heard here:
watch?v=qajFpzDdeJg
marksoutof10 3 years ago
I thought you meant the arrangement that the BBC used in the 80s and 90s
AidanLunn 3 years ago 2
Actually, Mark, it is the sombre and sad version. I heard this slower version in a clip here on YouTube from when BBC1 signed off it's schedule in 1997 on the night Princess Diana died. =S
RonicW 2 years ago
Isn't the globe going the wrong way round????!!
richkennett 3 years ago
richkennett, it's the BBC1 Mirror Globe! The "reflected reversed flat map" was its background behind the mirror! The spherical globe had spun from left to right!
reldex143 3 years ago 3
it's always spins like that.
itvhearts 3 years ago 2
no.
AidanLunn 2 years ago
haha it sounds really mental
1O74 3 years ago
This version of the National Anthem is a right dirge... thankfully the BBC introduced a rendition with a bit more gusto soon after this.
DiseaseShaker 3 years ago 2
it does drag on a bit...but the version used for my local ITV company (Grampian) used to last even longer, and they kept using that right up till 1988...
EuroAlien 3 years ago