TV Turn Off and Blip Out Version 3

This is my third and probably last version of recreating a television sign-off and TV turn off in the 1960s. I added a public domain version of the Star-Spangled banner, dirtied it up a little bit for the old video effect, and added a few other effects.

Click here for a version without the National Anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8x19tYe9C4

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• TV
• television
• sign-off
• turn
• off
• star
• spangled
• banner
• public
• domain
• static
• national
• anthem

[ErisTheFairest5]

This must have been during that brief time in the 60s where Alaska and Hawaii were kicked out of the US. Joking of course, this was a really cool production and looks quite authentic.

[joedeshon]

@ErisTheFairest5 Yeah, yeah, I know. It was the best public domain footage I could come up with. 

[ColinOOOD]

That's great... can we use the blip out part for an A/V performance we have coming up?

[joedeshon]

@ColinOOOD Sure. I'm flattered.

[strongerthanallgtr]

can i use this in a music video for my band man?!

[joedeshon]

@strongerthanallgtr Sure. The song and the footage are public domain. And I'm not claiming any rights to the rest of the video. I'm flattered.

[darkbrokenwingagnel]

This reminds me of the Young Ones.

This is really cool to see this.

[BossHossV8Cycles]

I know this was a couple years ago, but I'm sorry, this isn't realistic at all. For a good reference go here /watch?v=SK4MQl89hX4 It's an actual old style television turning off with the squash and blip effect. The image does not scale smaller then stretch then compress to a dot. The image squashing into a line should be no more than two frames, the line compressing to a dot between 5-7 frames, and the dot fading would be about 30-45 frames (1-1.5 seconds). And soften your edges.

[626Acarter]

Goodbye America. I wish your citizens had awakened in time to save you.

[sr71ablackbird]

@chillaxer1993 isn't that the truth though ? those were great times, back when automobiles were made to last, when toys could take any kind of beating, now all we get stuck with these days is nothing but junk, junk, and more junk. I wish those days were back. Maybe they could be, but it would be up to all of the folks of the country to help do it.

[Schmoup]

Memorereesssss : )

[BestDriverJobs001]

Nice job! Not going to lie though, totally expected something to come out of the screen at the end.

[MrUnidyne]

Ah, analogue memories...

[chillaxer1993]

back when america was great! we peaked in the 80's and have been on a decline

[daisyroots]

far more entertaining than dancing with the stars.....or American idol

[kusuriurikun]

@joedeshon At any rate, it's pretty darn good--and there is video on Youtube from the 50s (from the initial sign-on of WTIC in Hartford, CT) that uses a 48-star flag (the station went live in 1957) and TV transmissions were in place in the US on a non-experimental basis some twelve years or so before Alaska and Hawaii got statehood (longer than that, if you count pre-WWII experimental TV on the old 441-line system).

So lots of chances for old flags in repros :D