BBC 1 Closedown sequence

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Uploaded by on Sep 19, 2010

An early closedown for BBC1s new globe with its faded colours and a John Cravens Newsround on a shooting attempt on the Pope

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  • @streesmut70 That's CEEFAX, the BBC's teletext service, which used the same graphics as the BBC, 'B', Micro in mode 7. Although, only a text-based font, it was possible to create some graphical representations using the limited square and rectangular characters which were included in its 256 characters. Each could be coloured in one of 8 colours and could also be made to flash. Many examples of this, 'artwork', were used as captions on the BBC's, 'CEEFAX in-view', which was used at the time.

  • Wow Old Computer Graphic 8 Bit of PGA (6:18)

  • The closedown at the start is Wednesday 13th May 1981, the Newsround clip is Thursday 14th May and the BBC2 clip at the end is Friday 22nd May.

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