Example of BBC1 continuity from 8pm on Thursday 15th May 1986 including the end of EastEnders, BBC News Headlines, Forthcoming Programme Announcements & the start of Tomorrow's World.
Those Tomorrow's World titles are incredible - they'd look good now. The music is brilliant. I vividly remember the Q-Sound demonstration - we didn't have a stereo TV then (did anyone?), so had a radio cassette in front of the TV tuned to Radio 1 which was simulcasting the show (I'd like to see them try that now with the digital delay). The demonstration worked very well.
It was Roland RSS (similar to Q-Sound) a short-lived professional 3D mixing technology. You're right. they used two mixes of the 1985-1992 theme tune (by Paul Hart and Joe Campbell) to demo the technology alongside Megablast by Bomb The Bass. If you're lucky you can still find the RSS-treated mixes on old BBC Sound Effects CD released in 1991.
Notice how much more southern-spoken John Humphries was back then, almost no trace of the northern accent he sports on Radio 4 now. This is especially odd as he grew up in Cardiff...
I prefer the old 'brain' sequence from before this one. I remember being bitterly disappointed at those crappy synth trumpets and strings. Still, funny to see that opening sequence nowadays.
I have the live recording of the Radio 1 simulcast of this 3D section of TW on audio cassette. Would like to post it up on here, but sadly when I connect my cassette deck up to my pc to make an mp3 via the mic socket, the 3D effect is lost. Anything I can do to get round it?
Colourised Chaplin???!!! How kack does that look now! ariennecoerlin is right about the 3d sound thing. Think it was called Q-Sound. Apparently used on the intro of Madonna's "live to Tell" Bring back TW. There's nothing to look forward to without it...
