I started a TV engineering apprenticeship in 1967 , so I well remember the various TV test cards and music. I'm now about to look for some of the trade test colour films. Anybody remember "The Home Made Car?" Or the one where the power station worker goes to the dentist and nearly gets electrocuted on his return, due to someone else's carelessness? And who could forget the Mike Aspel voiced animation which was to familiarise engineers with the techniques of setting up convergence and purity?
@TheCaleyman I have been told that the Home Made Car and some other films have been put up, but British Petroleum, who own the copyrights to them, have had them removed. (Bstds). Home made car was brillliant. Pity that small-minded management have such a narrow and miserable attitude - what cost to them if they left them up? - Nothing. I stand correcting if my information is wrong.
@23565120 Just watched the Home Made Car yesterday as well as the Colour Television Receiver familiarisation one, an animation with the posh voice of Mike Aspel. I'm just away to check if the Home Made Car is still there.
@TheCaleyman Thanks for telling me that. I hadn't checked since I was told they'd gone about 18months ago. I too was in the trade, and retired due to health probs. in 2001. The 60's were the best times for engineers in my opinion. Nicely built sets, far better customer attitude than today. Generally (Well, at least in my experience) easier - going management. Happy days !. Started in 1954. Hot soldering iron ever since, - and still is !.Psst-Got H.M.Car&W.O.Kent films on VHS from BBC source!.
@23565120 I'm about to search for an ITA/IBA Test card, with Dvorak's Slavonic Dances on it. This as I remember, was the first music heard in the morning in the late 60s early 70s I used to turn up the volume of some of the TVs in the shop,& on test in our service dept. I didn't know its and other classics title until the boss's secretary (no old fuddy duddy) told me. I left the trade in 1990 pissed off with how things had gone. I didn't want to be repairing microwave ovens for example.
cwilliams ... probably a typo in your notes ... Chick debuted in Feb 1968 not 1967 ... it was the tape that just wouldn't lay down and die ... it even came back again (minus the ident signals) as half of the hour-long "Night Ride" tape in 1973.
I remember this sequence as the second half of a 1 hour tape in 1974. I usually heard it at lunchtime. When "Town Terminal" came on it was time to head back to school!
Enjoyed rediscovering all these tracks I haven't heard for over thirty years at least, but it's a pity the last one here (Ski Girl?) cuts out in the middle - any chance of posting the full version?
Yes it's still there, as is Journey To The Weald Of Kent etc. Have a look.
TheCaleyman 7 months ago
I started a TV engineering apprenticeship in 1967 , so I well remember the various TV test cards and music. I'm now about to look for some of the trade test colour films. Anybody remember "The Home Made Car?" Or the one where the power station worker goes to the dentist and nearly gets electrocuted on his return, due to someone else's carelessness? And who could forget the Mike Aspel voiced animation which was to familiarise engineers with the techniques of setting up convergence and purity?
TheCaleyman 7 months ago
@TheCaleyman I have been told that the Home Made Car and some other films have been put up, but British Petroleum, who own the copyrights to them, have had them removed. (Bstds). Home made car was brillliant. Pity that small-minded management have such a narrow and miserable attitude - what cost to them if they left them up? - Nothing. I stand correcting if my information is wrong.
23565120 7 months ago
@23565120 Just watched the Home Made Car yesterday as well as the Colour Television Receiver familiarisation one, an animation with the posh voice of Mike Aspel. I'm just away to check if the Home Made Car is still there.
TheCaleyman 7 months ago
@TheCaleyman Thanks for telling me that. I hadn't checked since I was told they'd gone about 18months ago. I too was in the trade, and retired due to health probs. in 2001. The 60's were the best times for engineers in my opinion. Nicely built sets, far better customer attitude than today. Generally (Well, at least in my experience) easier - going management. Happy days !. Started in 1954. Hot soldering iron ever since, - and still is !.Psst-Got H.M.Car&W.O.Kent films on VHS from BBC source!.
23565120 7 months ago
@23565120 I'm about to search for an ITA/IBA Test card, with Dvorak's Slavonic Dances on it. This as I remember, was the first music heard in the morning in the late 60s early 70s I used to turn up the volume of some of the TVs in the shop,& on test in our service dept. I didn't know its and other classics title until the boss's secretary (no old fuddy duddy) told me. I left the trade in 1990 pissed off with how things had gone. I didn't want to be repairing microwave ovens for example.
TheCaleyman 7 months ago
I havev got this tune on the cd and it is good stereo seperation
palexandersquires 8 months ago
Third track stuck in my mind all these years....
Groonblatt 1 year ago
cwilliams ... probably a typo in your notes ... Chick debuted in Feb 1968 not 1967 ... it was the tape that just wouldn't lay down and die ... it even came back again (minus the ident signals) as half of the hour-long "Night Ride" tape in 1973.
redsnapper1959 1 year ago
@redsnapper1959 ... and had I seen Tommy's comment below first, I wouldn't have repeated what he'd already said! D'oh!
redsnapper1959 1 year ago
I remember this sequence as the second half of a 1 hour tape in 1974. I usually heard it at lunchtime. When "Town Terminal" came on it was time to head back to school!
TommyWylie 2 years ago
yes I heard it at lunchtime too in 1974....this was the first BBC2 track I heard in 1968 when I was 4......left me spellbound!!!
MrBrownberry 2 years ago
Enjoyed rediscovering all these tracks I haven't heard for over thirty years at least, but it's a pity the last one here (Ski Girl?) cuts out in the middle - any chance of posting the full version?
robhardy 3 years ago