BBC 1 Globe 1969 Version in Monty Python
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@c3section - Best gag ever!
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Ethel the Frog.............well its better than daytime tv today.
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@stevelandin The camera was part of the NODDY system stevelandin! The system also had other idents and captions so the camera could point at the BBC globe orb the others when needed to.
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I saw the actual globe at TV centre. It lived in a small cupboard and it was mechanically rotated, the globe was about 5 or 6 inches in diameter with a shiny mirrored background, and had a dedicated TV camera pointed at it. There must have been some primitive processing of the video picture to make the pretty colour...
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El Formato del Video es PAL.
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i cannot see on of the late 60's, early 70's idents in other compilations without thinking of one of the python parodies...
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The "Ethel The Frog" theme was the Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite, by Jean Sibelius.
At the time it was being used as the theme for Thames Television's current affairs programme "This Week".
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This is a classic example of a case where a Python gag doesn't work when converted to 525-line NTSC, as Americans don't know the "stars" of the fictional show, and thus don't know what is supposed to be funny about the continuity (which one better call a "station break" in 525).
Monty Python still has a following in the USA to this day (2009).
Before Wikipedia, nobody here knew who Semprini was, either :-)
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c3section 2 years ago 11
The best use of this on "Monty Python" was at the end of a show that ran short on material. The spinning globe was shown, and the announcer said "And now, one more minute of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'!" The globe continued for 60 seconds in total silence.
MrUnidyne 3 years ago 8