Southern ITV continuity September 1981

Announcer Christopher Robbie introduces Alfred Hitchcock's film "Young and Innocent" on Southern ITV, September 1981. This clip includes the Southern logo before the film. Apologies that the whole clip is in black and white, but on the early VHS recorders there was a "colour"/"black and white" setting - if switched to black and white when recording a black and white programme it eliminated all the colour signal which apparently made the recording better.

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[RobinCarmody]

Just as I thought - Friday 18th September 1981.

[AidanLunn]

@cwilliams1976 Obviously you do - I was asking how you do.

(It's much better to study yourself and get training and practice when understanding how television technology works, rather than simply remembering and not understanding facts stated by those who know what they're talking about, like myself.

[cwilliams1976]

@AidanLunn I know these things

[AidanLunn]

@cwilliams1976 Oh, you mean you've heard *of* them. I meant understand *how* a colour subcarrier works ;) Or will you just copy the information from the internet?

[cwilliams1976]

@AidanLunn I actually know about colour subcarriers; how I know is when BBC Television closed down for the night sometimes they would show a Pulse-and-Bar pattern before switching the transmitters off and adding the colour subcarrier on to the monochrome Pulse-and-Bar pattern.

[AidanLunn]

@cwilliams1976 I'm surprised you know about colour subcarriers! Or did you just copy that information from me on another Southern b&w continuity video, without really understanding what I meant? ;)

[cwilliams1976]

Hence the lack of a colour subcarrier; also by the way, Christopher Robbie makes reference to the fact that schools programmes would return to ITV that Monday morning of what would be Southern's final provision of schools programmes before the transfer to TVS, but despite the fact that both companies had a regional educational officer in place neither produced any schools programmes for the ITV network for transmission.