06-01-2021, 01:05 PM
Like Steve, I hadn't realised this was a professional effort, reported in Proc IRE.
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
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06-01-2021, 02:10 PM
06-01-2021, 04:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2021, 04:36 PM by peter scott.)
Thanks Steve, If we dismiss the "Art Bars" it looks as if the earliest test card was just wording.
Peter Or a little later..
06-01-2021, 04:43 PM
06-01-2021, 05:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-01-2021, 05:42 PM by peter scott.)
(06-01-2021, 04:43 PM)Panrock Wrote:(06-01-2021, 04:27 PM)peter scott Wrote: Or a little later.. I don't know but it could be. Looks less like him in the second photo. I'm struggling to understand the test card in the video with its single line of text above and below. The nearest I can find is this. It is 5:4 I think.
It seems to me this may have been serving as an interval or start-up caption here, rather than primarily being a tuning signal, in the spirit of "programmes follow shortly".
Steve
07-01-2021, 02:04 PM
It's certainly difficult to see how they could fit "BBC TELEVISION SERVICE" into the top line with that height of text.
Peter
As for the cartoon just before the interval signal, it's called "Mother Goose Melodies" and you can watch it here. Look around 3 min 20 sec in....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CvxV8azja0 The next thing would be to look it up in the relevant Radio Times Television Supplement. Several of the web references mention November 1938, not 1937... Steve
07-01-2021, 03:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2021, 03:38 PM by peter scott.)
The cartoon is used on quite a few occasions in 1938. Looking for something similar to that that precedes it in the YouTube I'm not sure that there are any totally convincing occurrences. Perhaps this one in June? Not obviously a ballet though.
http://www.radiotimesarchive.co.uk/television.html Peter |
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