NOTE: I have tried to get all idents/stings in widescreen, but this also means idents originally in 4:3 are zoomed in on broadcast. Also, due to Content ID matches, there maybe ads added by copyright owner. I cannot prevent these ads from loading and I do not get money from them.
A survey carried out by the BBC in 1990 found that the BBC Two presentation launched in 1985 gave the channel a ‘worthy but dull’ image. Then-controller Alan Yentob saw a major change of identity was necessary.
Branding agency Lambie-Nairn were commissioned, and on 16 February 1991, the new custom ‘2’ - and the signature colour, viridian - were unveiled on BBC Two, in idents that would successfully change public perception, and become world famous.
The ‘2’ always appeared in the same shape, in various forms; the earliest idents of 1991 featured solely inanimate ‘2’ figures of different material in each, but also made use of camera angle tricks and properties such as refraction to achieve various effects.
In later years it was given character, taking the form of a remote-controlled car, a rubber duck, a Dalek and a toy dog among many others. The expansive set of idents from 1991 to 2001 - lasting over a decade - are generally regarded as the best idents ever produced for a television channel; they ended in November 2001. The BBC corporate logo was updated within the idents in October 1997, though the idents moved away from the original viridian colour scheme in these latter years.
(from TV-Live.org.uk)
Idents in order (with timestamps):
00:00 - Paint
00:24 - Water
00: - Paper Cut-Out
01: - Shadow
01: - Silk
(rest coming soon)
Still missing idents:
Pop Art ident
Rembrandt ident
Shakespeare ident
Halloween Night idents - No.1 and No.2
Edinburgh Nights ident
Evolution Night ident
Gay Night Ident
X-Files Night Idents
New Moon Ident
Credits to sources of idents video/music:
The Ident Gallery - www.theident.ga...
Pres Bits by This is Five - www.thisisfive....
TV Ark - www.tv-ark.org.uk/
Lambie-Nairn - / lambienairntube
TV2Record - / tv2record1
benriggers - / benriggers
2007TGD- / 2007tgd
RyanlcfcI - / ryanlcfci
FireUpTheTelevision - / fireupthetelevision
LuthansaTerminal - / luthansaterminal
10 сен 2024
