Re the picture quality, this looks like a "telerecording" that is a film recording of a 625 broadcast . So you have 576 lines reduced by the rapid pulldown system to about 560 on the film. Then it's electronically blurred to reduce the effect of moire patterns., The film can be restored to full broadcast quality a la Doctor Who but it would be not economic for a clip such as this of course.
Hmm...it COULD be a great idea. Well, you could find the film and hire the Doctor Who restoration team to restore this, it's the digital revolution! YouTube! Start a campaign. Get it to a DVD in a few weeks or months or so. Great idea, huh?
It was a strange time in that nearly all the TV's on sale in the UK were made in the UK as hardly any other manufacturer thought it worth their while to produce a TV that, technically varied so wildly from the majority they made for everyone else in technically superior mainland Europe
The clip, is not, however representative of the picture quality you would have experienced as a viewer at the time. Infact 405 line tv looked quite crisp and bright when viewed on a 405 line TV.
The font you mention was almost universal on BBC TV and ITV at that time. Unlike the rest of Europe Britain still operated an antiquated low definition TV system based on 405 lines, so this was probably the only font that showed up properly. 625 lines, only adopted in Britain in 1967, was commonplace on the mainland for years before.
It'd be cool if there was a cable channel called "BBC Classic" or something like that. They can play all the classic coms, news shows, children's, idents, continuity, discussion shows, as if it's the 60s and 70s again!
Quite right. It's impossible to hear the Late Night Line-Up music now without picturing Graham Chapman with a giant polystyrene nose waiting to be interviewed by Michael Palin.
Was It From BBC 2 Started In November 1963?
gibsosgerbil 1 year ago
from the BBC Continuity Clips from the 1960's.
JHollowayNetwork 1 year ago
From January 1966.
JHollowayNetwork 1 year ago
Re the picture quality, this looks like a "telerecording" that is a film recording of a 625 broadcast . So you have 576 lines reduced by the rapid pulldown system to about 560 on the film. Then it's electronically blurred to reduce the effect of moire patterns., The film can be restored to full broadcast quality a la Doctor Who but it would be not economic for a clip such as this of course.
dolphin8b 3 years ago
Hmm...it COULD be a great idea. Well, you could find the film and hire the Doctor Who restoration team to restore this, it's the digital revolution! YouTube! Start a campaign. Get it to a DVD in a few weeks or months or so. Great idea, huh?
Tripp1993 2 years ago
whos the guy presenter?
bluesbrother37 4 years ago 5
The presenter was Michael Dean
urbanfox93 4 years ago 3
Many thanks!!
bluesbrother37 4 years ago 2
@bluesbrother37 if I'm not mistaken, the presenter is Keith Albarn, father of Blur's frontman, Damon Albarn - according to his bio in wikipedia!
ChooseRed 4 days ago
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@bluesbrother37 if I'm not mistaken, the presenter is Keith Albarn, father of Blur's frontman, Damon Albarn - according to his bio in wiki!
ChooseRed 4 days ago
"That's the weather, now let's forget about it..." haha so proper and British!@
gabsylv 4 years ago 7
@gabsylv HaHaha!! So true!
Feisty1967 1 year ago
don't forget about the 80s and the 90s on BBC CLASSIC,too!
wolfschmidt11 4 years ago
Problem with that is that UK Gold used to show classics but now it's more recent stuff!
AnthonyUK 3 years ago 2
It was a strange time in that nearly all the TV's on sale in the UK were made in the UK as hardly any other manufacturer thought it worth their while to produce a TV that, technically varied so wildly from the majority they made for everyone else in technically superior mainland Europe
EuroReporter 4 years ago
The clip, is not, however representative of the picture quality you would have experienced as a viewer at the time. Infact 405 line tv looked quite crisp and bright when viewed on a 405 line TV.
EuroReporter 4 years ago
However, remember this was broadcast on BBC2 - which from the start in 1964 was broadcast on 625 lines.
EuroAlien 3 years ago
The font you mention was almost universal on BBC TV and ITV at that time. Unlike the rest of Europe Britain still operated an antiquated low definition TV system based on 405 lines, so this was probably the only font that showed up properly. 625 lines, only adopted in Britain in 1967, was commonplace on the mainland for years before.
EuroReporter 4 years ago
It'd be cool if there was a cable channel called "BBC Classic" or something like that. They can play all the classic coms, news shows, children's, idents, continuity, discussion shows, as if it's the 60s and 70s again!
stokepogue 4 years ago 2
I agree! A classic BBC channel showing the items you mention would rock!
AnthonyUK 4 years ago
Did Joan Bakewell *really* speak like that? Amazing. Anyone know who the announcer is here?
RobinCarmody 4 years ago
From 19 January 1966, hence the snow. This clip demonstrates how accurate Monty Python was at spoofing then-current TV.
SleazyMartinez 4 years ago
Quite right. It's impossible to hear the Late Night Line-Up music now without picturing Graham Chapman with a giant polystyrene nose waiting to be interviewed by Michael Palin.
dmpcornwall 2 years ago
When Joan Bakewell was young and beautiful. Lovely. And I love that typeface they used for "LATE NIGHT LINE-UP".
EuroAlien 5 years ago
So, Paul Jones had his arm in an NHS sling! Very Rock N Roll! Mike S.
25AUG1968 5 years ago
wow funky ! that wiz short ! didn't know channel two wnet on until 12midnight amazing
whirlyfan 5 years ago