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The original BBC Four idents from 2002 to 2005. BBC Four was launched on 2 March 2002. The channel's first series of idents were dynamic and reacted to the frequencies of continuity announcers' voices or background music. As a result, no idents were ever the same, however variations were produced featuring different visualisations, such as ...
Test Card C [6] was a BBC television test card first broadcast in 1947. [2] It was the first test card to resemble the famous Test Card F. [5] Test Card C allowed adjustment and verification of parameters such as: [7] Aspect Ratio: central circles; Resolution: five gratings corresponding to frequencies of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 MHz
A generic BBC ident, featuring a gold coloured BBC logo forming onto a blue background in silence, followed by the continuity announcer saying, "This is the BBC". This ident was first seen to introduce special programming across both BBC One and BBC Two following the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, on 9 April. BBC Two's normal ...
The Bats Wings ident, the first BBC ident. The ident they called the "Bat's Wings" was introduced on 2 December 1953. A new media needed a new way to brand itself, and this was it. It was a model made of piano wire, brass and flashing lights, created by Abram Games. It featured a spinning globe in the centre and two spinning eyes, each going in ...
The ident itself was modified with the caption beneath showing a BBC corporate logo, with the slanted legend 'World Service Television' beneath, in the same style as used for regional variations of the BBC1 ident at the time. No clock accompanied the look, due to the various time zones used around the world, with serious or news programming ...
The BBC Two 1991–2001 idents were broadcast from 16 February 1991 until 19 November 2001, and again from 9 July 2014 until 26 September 2018, on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. The idents , which consisted of a sans-serif '2' in Gill Sans , accompanied by the colour viridian , [ 1 ] were created by branding agency Lambie-Nairn [ 2 ] (and later ...
The ident was commonly believed to be caused by two rotating cylinders, however they were in fact formed by 23 stacked discs, each with a different line drawn on the outside. Each disc rotated in a different direction to the disc immediately above and below it, and had colour added through the NODD system that was used to make the BBC1 mirror ...
The Noddy was a camera system used for generating idents for the BBC One and BBC Two television channels from late 1963 [1] to February 1985. The Noddy video camera was controlled by a servomotor to pan and tilt (or 'nod', hence the name Noddy) across a set of pre-arranged physical objects or captions.