[MOCK] More Widescreen Playschool Rubbish (1970)

[presheaven]

Awesome. I was always curious to know if I'd got that clock right, and now I know I was a bit off.

[stupidrubbish]

@presheaven AFAIK this clock was used until 1972, when a clock identical to the one you used on your BBC2 start-up was used until Christmas 1974.

[presheaven]

@stupidrubbish Yes, it was apparently brought in with the original multi-coloured 2 cube film and associated presentation. Prior to that, it was just static slides in the place of idents and the clock was the colour version of the original 1960s clock. I think I had the word COLOUR under the 2, and in white on my version of the clock shown here and I was told it was correct, but you cant count on people's memories. Where did you get the details of this clock, or do you have a pic?

[stupidrubbish]

@presheaven I have a picture of it - it was taken from a Blue Peter broadcast on a day that the budget meant children's programmes were shown on BBC2.

[presheaven]

@stupidrubbish Great, was there any other pres surrounding the BP do you know? I'm dreaming that one day the BBC will see fit to commission a BBC Four documentary about television presentation, in 4:3, and broadcast it without a DOG with an accompanying compilation called 'Presentation at the BBC' of Idents, trails, clocks, etc. and all the stuff we've never seen would be in it, hopefully minus Steve Wright or any captions as in TOTP2. It'll never happen :/

[RAX118G]

The telecine flicker works really well. I can usually get it to look pretty good when displayed on a CRT screen but tend to lose the effect transferring to computer formats because of the deinterlacing.

Great mash-up of names too!

[stupidrubbish]

@RAX118G I really overdo the flicker when I watch it my stuff on a CRT so I suppose that's why it came out OK on here. I knew you'd be the only person to notice the names at the end!

[wmbrown6]

The '2' as in that shape (albeit minus the dot inside) was used by at least two U.S. TV stations in the 1960's: KREM-TV in Spokane, WA, and KTVU in Oakland, CA.

[stupidrubbish]

@wmbrown6 I think this "2" was part of the love affair British graphic designers were having with Microgramma/Eurostyle at the time. Which was odd really, as until the mid 80s a lot of what was on BBC 2 couldn't have been more old-fashioned.

[thelurkerish]

Im trying to remember what Crawfords frosted creams look like now

[stupidrubbish]

@thelurkerish They were tiny biscuits with rounded corners that had white cream inside which was more addictive than crack. Granny Hussey used to buy them in Key Markets and they were my favourites.

[thelurkerish]

@stupidrubbish I remember a tiny biscut with white cream, I though they were called neice creams or something like that I think im getting my biscuits mixed up.

[stupidrubbish]

@thelurkerish No, the biscuit in these was smooth (nothing written on it), quick thick and was covered in sugar. They were a "give yourself diabetes" kit conveiniently wrapped in cellophane looking back, but they were nice!