MOCK/SPOOF - Antarctica Testcard G (Philips PM5544) - 1980s

[JFredUK]

American Girls is by Paul Hart. That and Heavy on Easy were used by Channel 4 in the early to mid 80's on their test card.

[alisoneales]

The music which starts at 7.08 is the default music on the inside of my head.

[stogerovn]

The music is great!!!!!

[benkid77]

Nice! You should also do some rockall testcards.

[racrmimbpsvc]

You might mean Oracle, not Ceefax.

[TommyWylie]

This particular version of Non Stop was used on BBC Ceefax in the late 1980s as a linking track to cover the gap while they changed the one-hour reels of tape. Does anyone know if this particular version is on a CD?

[WarHater69]

oooh thats a go0t wun. big travel TV yes.

[Lesrevesdhiver]

Yeah I didn't know thee was even human life on that continent. Someone said only scientists would live there for any manount of time.

[networksoutheast]

antarctica tv is made up!

[dacrlit]

It never is, is it?

Sorry, no need for sarcasm.

[connoret]

that last song on this testcard video...I have defintely heard it before somewhere. Do you know where I can find that song it its "muzak/orchestra format" that would be great

[g7mzh]

It's called "Non-stop" by John Malcolm.

It was used as the ITN theme for many years (though not in that arrangement!). The "usual" version is available on verious compilation CDs.

[networksoutheast]

was antartica tv actually real or was it one u made up?

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Made up!!!!!

[palaciego]

¿Sigue activa la web de meldrum? Yo hace mucho tiempo que no entro, me encantaba verla, pero siempre la veía bastante desactualizada.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

Sigue activa, pero sigue desactualizada.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

He añadido la dirección de la web de Meldrum a la descripción.

[palaciego]

Gracias, la verdad es que hace tiempo que la suelo ver, pero siempre pone desde 1998.

[plan7a]

Thank you for the information, Rich.

[plan7a]

Especially worth it for the music. Rich. Where did you find these sounds? I can imagine 4Tel or Pages from Ceefax going on during this or the music being used during a "Technical Fault" station caption. The test card is too clean though - there needed to be some strobing vua the closer packed lines IMO.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

A lot of these tunes were used for testcards, Teletext on TV (Ceefax/4Tel), and Schools & Colleges junctions. They are available at the Meldrum Private Parts website, which features TV presentation material, from video clips to music files. I've just added it to the description.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

The Meldrum URL has just been added to the video's description.

[AntarcticaTelevision]

The testcard was ever "cleaner" before I uploaded it!