{"id":258,"date":"2023-11-18T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T11:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kecskebak.hu\/?p=258"},"modified":"2023-11-26T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:59:13","slug":"torch-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kecskebak.hu\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Torch and Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For many years I had always imagined that the BBC Schools Piechart animation<\/a> was used since the beginning of schools programmes on BBC Television. However, in actual fact there were two presentation \u201cpackages\u201d in use before its introduction and I want to talk about the second of those.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first year of school broadcasts, the BBC had used a package that consisted of a torch symbol with a fanfare, at the end of which a particularly strong lamp was shone on the torch to make it flicker, followed by the in-vision announcer introducing the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some pictures, courtesy of the Alexandra Palace Television Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BBC Schools torch model \u201cdim\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BBC Schools torch model \u201cilluminated\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BBC Schools in-vision announcer on torch set<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Independent Television in its first year of schools broadcasting, unlike the BBC, had adopted a much less personal approach in its schools presentation. It used a tuning signal followed by a one minute countdown clock1<\/a><\/sup> preceding each programme and no announcements at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are unfamiliar with the ITV Schools sequence from the period, I recreated a version of this sequence in Widescreen in 2008, and here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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