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The trade test colour films are among the subjects of interest of the Test Card Circle, an organization devoted to studying and preserving the test cards used by television broadcasters. The static test cards were typically transmitted for periods before and after regular programming, originally to permit viewers to adjust their television sets.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Giuseppina was broadcast 185 times on British television as a trade test colour film. [5] Excerpts were also shown on Vision On, the BBC programme for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. It was released as an extra on the BFI Flipside DVD release of "Lunch Hour".
The film became a cult success when regularly broadcast as a trade test colour transmission on the run up to the start of BBC2 colour transmissions. [5] Originally screened from September 1968 until August 1973, it was one of a series of short films broadcast to help television engineers set up new colour television sets.
The Test Card Circle Details of the UK's Trade Test Transmissions including the history of the BBC and ITA Test Cards, a look at the music used and full details about the Trade Test Colour Films shown from the late fifties to 1973. BBC Test Card Video; BBC The Television Test Card; BBC Test Cards from meldrum.co.uk
The Test Card Circle Details of the UK's Trade Test Transmissions including the history of the BBC and ITA Test Cards, a look at the music used and full details about the Trade Test Colour Films shown from the late fifties to 1973. The Story of Carole Hersee - The BBC Test Card Girl (documentary on Youtube
And those Colour Films, well the Colour Films being shown in today's Trade Test Transmissions are at eleven-thirty-five Journey Into The Weald Of Kent, at ten-past-twelve Cantagallo, at two-o'clock North Sea Quest, at 2:35 Giuseppina and the last Trade Test Colour Film at 3:30, Coupe Des Alpes.
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Both films were regularly shown on BBC2 as Trade test colour films (a.k.a. fillers); in fact at 2:30 pm on 24 August 1973, Giuseppina was the last such film ever shown. [5] [6] The year 1965 began with A Study in Terror, pitting an imaginary Sherlock Holmes against real life Jack the Ripper.