BBC Intermission Slate Thingy

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Hi,

I was looking online for a copy of the graphic that used to appear as intermission on BBC, in a circle in the middle, a girl with a puppet or something, that set on a a grey grid thing with other primary colours around the border....

Is this making sense to anyone? Can Anyone point me in the right direction?

Terry

one minute.

This thing? http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/596/boardstv3jv5.png
Minus the boards.tv logo, of course.

stovelid

Do an image search for 'BBC test card' and you'll get loads

mike65

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/test-patterns/television/bbc-f1997.jpg

Sadly missed by some of us.

Mike.

DMC

Test Card F. Since retired, but she still remains. Now used is Test Card J and W.

Decent flash recreation....

http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash/tcf_1.asp

Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Card_F

DonkeyStyle \o/

mike65 wrote:

Sadly missed by some of us.

Eurgh, not me... that picture used to frighten me. :eek:

DMC

For those of us in two-channel land... this was standard daytime fayre before Dead at 4 came along...

5starpool

Ah the days when broadcasting stopped at around midnight and didn't start on some channels until around 11am, or even later in the case of RTE2 I think.

The BBC testcard was the standard in terms of testcards though, the multi coloured RTE one hadn't a patch on it.

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thanks guys. got exactly what i needed, now to photoshop my friends head in in place of the girl.....

Mossy Monk

5starpool wrote:

Ah the days when broadcasting stopped at around midnight and didn't start on some channels until around 11am, or even later in the case of RTE2 I think.

The BBC testcard was the standard in terms of testcards though, the multi coloured RTE one hadn't a patch on it.

RTÉ even used the BBC test card when testing widescreen on Sky Digital

DMC

Mossy Monk wrote:

RTÉ even used the BBC test card when testing widescreen on Sky Digital

Jesus. You out-anoraked watty there!

sat1

Test Card G was a television test card broadcast occasionally by the BBC. It was the first electronically generated test card to be broadcast, and was a variant of the Philips PM5544 test pattern.



This card was used by rte,itv and much of the rest of the world, I never liked the bbc one.

Mossy Monk

DMC wrote:

Jesus. You out-anoraked watty there!

not possible

mike65

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/bbc_test.html



Mike.

Wertz

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Eurgh, not me... that picture used to frighten me. :eek:

I know, I used always think that girl ws retarded or something (not that there's anything wrong or scary about that in particular) but the smile on the puppet's face and the blackboard just used to really depress the tone of the picture or something...

Capt'n Midnight

The clown doll is named Bubbles. :eek:

Carole Hersee is in the Guinness Book Of Records as the person who's appeared on television for more hours than anyone else.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/classic/testcard.shtml

OfflerCrocGod

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thanks guys. got exactly what i needed, now to photoshop my friends head in in place of the girl.....

No the dolls head instead - like on Top Gear

Hagar

I actually remember Test Card D. We used to switch on our Pye TV a few minutes before the programmes started to let the set warm-up. So you got to see the test card while you waited. Innocent times.

Sparky

Mossy Monk wrote:

RTÉ even used the BBC test card when testing widescreen on Sky Digital

/me checks attachments

yup.

Attachment not found.

Oh that was some while ago.

31-03-2005 15:32

Terry

Hagar wrote:

I actually remember Test Card D. We used to switch on our Pye TV a few minutes before the programmes started to let the set warm-up. So you got to see the test card while you waited. Innocent times.

Hehe. Hagar is old.

Hagar

You're no spring chicken yourself.

mike65

Twas teh Pye that gave the game away.

Mike.

sceptre

Meh, RTE used to use boring old card G. I always imagined it looking like a face though, eyes somewhere on top, big black cross nose, big square black mouth.

(here's where the more nerdy step in to tell me they didn't use card G, just the PM5544 card or something)

Terry

sceptre wrote:

Meh, RTE used to use boring old card G. I always imagined it looking like a face though, eyes somewhere on top, big black cross nose, big square black mouth.

(here's where the more nerdy step in to tell me they didn't use card G, just the PM5544 card or something)

They're all out with their girl/boyfriends tonight.

brianthebard

This should be in retro man...