That rarest of UK TV continuity - the technical breakdown. I was happily watching 'Batman: The Animated Series' on a Saturday morning when all of a sudden, this happened...
Late reply to this but I may have identified the date of this breakdown. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-juggFIZ9IOA.html Somebody (by the name of ADC TV Collection) uploaded what seems to be preceding episode of What's Up Doc, which here advertises 'Be a Clown' (the episode that fell off the air here) - a commenter below that video shared what seems to be the TX date of that episode (3rd October 1992) which adds up considering the choice of slide and again the episode that was shown.
I used to love technical breakdowns!! Always so exciting, weird and wonderful, like normal life just packed up and all sorts of creepy unknown things could happen at any moment. I would have been 5 or 6 back then.
At 0:20 I hear a more background noise than before. This is were they probably manually switched the video source. So either they didn't have an automatic fallback source and had to connect it manually, or the entire system crashed, rendering the emergency video source unusable as well.
At 2:02 the sound from the Batman cartoon suddenly returns, under the music. It mutes out for a moment after the continuity announcer speaks, then returns a couple of seconds later. Must have been some frantic button pressing going on in the control room!
You could tell what the camera man was going to say as we couldn't hear it but picture still carried on a second longer he was going to say 'yes sir' by spotting it by his mouth thanks to the delay of the picture freezing this was possibly down to loss of power
Very well spotted. I think in re-converting the clip it ended up being a second out of synch for that part. That does happen sometimes. You wouldn't want me to do a fan re-edit of it now would you?
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