Tag: Blender

  • 1968 In Colour

    1968 In Colour

    One of the nice things about writing a blog is that readers will often respond with information or pictures that add more to the subjects that you have been writing on. I have recently written blog posts about BBC Network symbols that incorporate the Olympic rings, and BBC “polo mint” clocks and as a result…

  • Mark a Polo

    Mark a Polo

    This post covers several of my favourite subjects, so it will ramble all over the place. Apologies for that, but here we go… Sticking some kind of disc over the centre of an onscreen clock mechanism is a very practical solution to hiding the rather ugly screw that holds the hands in place. You could…

  • Wrestle Poodles and Win!

    Wrestle Poodles and Win!

    BBC Television, right from the very beginning, were always keen on outside broadcast television “firsts”. They wanted to break every limitation they perceived to be on what television could technically achieve. Therefore first live broadcast from the Alexandra Palace gardens/Wimbledon/Lords/the Olympics/a hovercraft/Concorde/the Old Man of Hoy/France/the USA/Narnia would guarantee television coverage. Growing up as a…

  • Whirled Off Sport

    Whirled Off Sport

    Another bit of revision to remind me of stuff I used to know how to do. There were two Olympic events held in 1972; the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan and the ill-fated summer Olympics held in Munich, West Germany. These would have been the first Olympics shown in colour on BBC1, although the 1968…

  • Presents Continuous

    Presents Continuous

    Explaining how I recreated the ABC Weekend Television start-up from the morning of Christmas Eve 1967.

  • Remember the name

    Remember the name

    A look back at some bits and bobs I did as a favour for the late, and much missed, Rob Milburn.

  • A Christmas Card

    A Christmas Card

    Explanation of how I created a Trumptonshire/BBC Presentation themed Christmas card for David Harper.

  • Torch and Go

    Torch and Go

    Description of how music and graphics of the BBC Television Schools countdown from 1958 was recreated in MuseScore, Blender and Inkscape.