And acknowledged they depended on your license fees, and had a mandate to fulfill; namely, to entertain and inform the masses, NOT overwhelm them with dumbed-down shite.
In the words of its creator, Abram Games: "I know it’s a bit frightening when you first look at it, but it will be all right when you get used to it.” Yeah, she'll be right, mate.
Before Oneness, before the circles, before the dancers, before the hot air balloon, before the Virtual Globe and before the COW, before the mirror globes, even before the globes in general................ was this spectacle. I can certainly see a lot of of that BBC charm within this little old sequence, the fact it was a model, the distinctive look, the jingle, the circle motif, and so much more. Little did the directors of the BBC know their idents in future years, would inspire generations to come.
The batwings and the harp music used to scare the living daylights out of me. Don't know why, but it did. Great to see it again though all these years later.
Abram Games had great ideas in mind when he designed the logo. He wanted to design it in a way that it would symbolize the revolutionary power of television as a medium in the technological sense. Personally I find that it does end up appearing quite dystopian but that was how optimism for the future was thought of by many creatives between the 1920s to the 1950s
It's a marvel, but it's really Orwellian. I love it for it's ingenuity and boldness whilst feeling it's slightly inappropriate. The later concave mirrored world design or 'Nodd' is my favourite.
When the arrows at the top and bottom of the logo can remind one of the Pickelhaube and the sides of the wings look reminiscent of the logo of the SS, you can understand why. An odd refutation to this (and it is easy to refute that opinion) is the logo of Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk, the Nazi German television service. It last aired in 1944 but its logo looked much more modern than this.
Why on earth some strange people think is a scary logo and might give them nightmares? With all due respect have they done their proper homework on this complicated mechanical device before jumping on to any conclusions? It's all available on the internet if one would like to invest there valuable time!
The eye in the center can look threatening. It's like it's focusing in on whoever's looking at it as if it were dinner. Animals, including humans, tend to feel threatened when they're stared at by wide eyes, or in this case, one wide eye.
due to this being mechanic. they proberly hired a mechanic repair man, but phones like today did not exist back when this masterpeace was aired on the tube
Rumour has it that this very temperamental piece of machinery broke down irreparably shortly after its operation was filmed. Unlike the mirror globe, this most certainly wasn't broadcast live every time it was shown - or indeed ever.
@@LovelyYT It never stood a chance. It was made by Abram Games, a great graphic designer of the war and postwar periods (if you see narrow boldface serif fonts from the mid 20th century, it's either Games or one of his acolytes). Unfortunately, he was not a full-time engineer as well.
The BBC had to work on the brilliant imagination of some of their staff. A lot of things regarded as 'animation' (Captain Pugwash etc) was clever cut out art with sliding panels to change expressions. This was a brilliant mechanical model which apparently did one perfectly shot fully turned circle before breaking down but they managed to edit the footage together to create the 'hold' footage.
Rated 12. You guys might be asking, why is it rated 12? It's because this ident contains imagery that young children might find disturbing. U know, if children see this, then they would probably get scared and will have nightmares. The music is calming though.
+PBS Man I'm not sure I would have been because I wasn't born in the 1950s (in fact, I was born in 2003, 50 years after this ident first aired). Might have found it lovely to see, actually, thanks to the "harp's" music. I find that music lovely now.
Probably. You can try asking anybody around the age of 70 in the UK and chances are they may not even remember it as not many households there had TV in the 1950s, though the number of viewers did grow near the end of the decade. If I'm not mistaken they ditched this ident in 1958.
