Visual Effects In Television, A BBC VFX Dept Promo (1970, excerpt only)

From the DVD of 'Inferno', a very enjoyable Jon Pertwee Doctor Who adventure, comes an excerpt (probably the first half) of a short promotional film by the BBC VFX Department made around 1970. It's a fascinating insight into vintage television effects work, decades before CGI and during the era when the BBC spent about fourpence on effects. It forms a nice companion to a couple of video clips which user Cardiff333UK, a true Good Samaritan of Vintage Telly, has uploaded elsewhere on youtube called 'The Model World of Robert Symes', a one hour documentary about model making split into four parts - look for the following, which examine the Beeb's visual effects work:
Part 3 (second half) http://youtu.be/6mwi2oovD0Y
Part 4 (first half) http://youtu.be/ZqCZdAPLQDQ

Incidentally, if anyone can lay their hands on the full BBC VFX Dept promo, please upload it - or persuade the Beeb to release the full thing! It's our bloody license fee money that paid for it, after all...

The full title is:
Visual Effects in Television - An Introduction to the Devices, Techniques and Operational Methods of the Visual Effects Department of BBCTV

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Visual Effects
• special effects
• BBC
• showreel

[PokemonKenobi]

Cool upload. Luv this older behind the scenes stuff. And even better coming from the BBC. Most of the older american stuff I've seen already. But this is pretty cool.