Southern TV Startup 1960-70s colour (Updated)

This is an updated version of my original SouthernTV startup movie. It now has the correct text on the transmitter information screen and I've added a correct animated ident and clock. This is as near to the true colour Southern startup as I think I'm going to get. I will provide a link to the high quality 1024x768 version soon so you can run this full screen on your computer monitor for that real TV effect! Enjoy.

I have uploaded a high quality version to my rapidshare account here: http://rapidshare.com/files/103371948/SouthernTVstartup_updated_.zip

(29 March 2008 updated link)

Let me know what you think of it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Southern
• TV
• startup
• start_up
• ident

[thecaretakerswebsite]

I've just updated the rapidshare link to the high quality version in the video text

[62philly]

It's extraordinary how music is so evocative. I knew there was a suite of music I sat through, aged 6 onwards, while waiting for the programmes to start but had long since though I would never hear it again. The moment I played your posting, I knew every note. I'm quite emotional. Thank you. Simon. Aged 47 and 3/4

[garymewis]

The music is called 'Southern Rhapsody' by Richard Addinsell. The version played here on this clip is the full scored version that is available on CD. There was a shorter and much faster version that accompanied the stunning little film of famous Southern landmarks. This music and that film brings back more memories of my childhood than almost anything I can think of as we kids waited for programmes to start in the afternoon. Magic!

[tripoveronce]

@andyme11 Sorry to jump in here,but have to mention this. My friend who came from Dorset, proposed to his soon to become wife, on the slope of Corfe-Castle. Halfway through his lengthly soliloquy, he went sliding down the slope. I still remember him telling me that now, I am now 72 years old...Ah memories. His name was Ted Thorne, I am Pete Hutchinson..

[tripoveronce]

This brings back many memories. I lived in Southampton, and was in the Merchant Navy. Had only just got married at the Civic Centre, and lived in Northlands Road [ my Pub was the Cowards] at the end of that road, our apartment looked out over the cricket ground.

So thank-you for bringing back memories.

[joannedj1]

@garymewis He's the guy who composed the Warsaw Concerto, isn't he?!

[Micke120872]

It is so great to hear this after 30 odd years. takes me back to the days of thunderbirds and casey jones on a saturday morning. not ashamed to say it brought tears to my eyes, but also wonderful memories. Thank you so much for this post - it is wonderful.

[Broadercasting]

I take it you haven't quite mastered your Brian Nissen impression yet?

[chrisnewman44]

Brilliant, haunting & evocative music that took me right back to our living room - early 60's when was a boy. I'd switch on the "Sobel" and anticipate the programmes starting, whilst enjoying the fanfare of this wonderful rhapsody. For some reason, I'd go into a mad dance around the room when the music speeded up towards the end - just before those iconic landmark film clips. Cannot work out the Pier though. It's not, I think, Shanklin, though quite similar. Chris Newman, Southampton.

[MsBkirk]

This music sounds to me what Tony Banks was aiming for with the 'Seven' album!

[aberjed]

Sounds like Constant Lambert

[DaveyC95]

This music reminds me a bit of Watership Down, not the Bright Eyes theme, but the incidental music when the camera is panning across rolling green fields and farms and the rabbits are playing with each other in the woods.

[BMG4ME]

I remember the film too. It's posted as "Southern Television Startup"