Ill be watching with great interest today.... youll unveil exit polls around 5pm my time here in the US East... and lemme tell ya something I cant help but think about how 248 years ago today, we told King George and England "we got this, Georgie, get lost!".... yet today you are voting in a new Parliament with people more qualified for office than the sludge we seem to vote in or even vote to nominate! So hopefully this will be a lesson for the US in how democracy is truly supposed to work!
To be fair, I do reckon David Cameron would've made an epic Doctor if he went into acting instead of politics. He just has 'that look', y'know? Bumbling Boris?... erm...
@@ChanT3 Maybe they just favor Wakeman though, but, they play it, not rid of it. This is a kind of music that is truly for the BBC elections event that happen every year when there is a general election.
One of David Dimbleby's sons, Fred, studied media at uni and was in the ITV mentoring scheme last year, he might eventually be the third generation broadcasting Dimbleby. DIMBLEBOT HAS DEFEATED BIO DIMBLEBY.
hmm, yes...someone works in an important news job (whos father also worked in an important news job btw) is somehow succeeded in his job by...his son...
07:11: The King Arthur theme finally arrives in 1979! 09:53: 1992 - The best orchestral version of the theme, IMO. Curious that in 1974, they use a countdown motif, similar in style to the BBC News theme years later. Thanks for the upload: fascinating and much appreciated! 👍
17:05 I don't know why, but the way it just abruptly cuts off is just so humorous to me. Just like "Sorry, we know you were expecting the results. But, for the referendum, it's just not going to be possible. Goodnight!".
FYI from 1979 the effects might LOOK like CGI, but they are mostly done by hand animation and camera techniques, espescially "slitscan" (which was also used to produce the 'time tunnel' effects in the opening sequences for the early Tom Baker stories). Only in 1987 onwards (with the rotating Houses of Parliament) is it actually CGI.
That 2001 theme is just awful what were they thinking, the theme used from 2010-2017 wasn’t bad but they were smart to go back to King Arthur it’s just so good
@@KenhCuaDaoLeMinhThe story goes that apparently for 2010 they wanted to charge Rick Wakeman to use it (rather than the other way round), and he told them where they could shove it!
@@bosserman444if your song topped the charts in the UK, you’d be invited by the BBC to do a performance of that song in one of their sets in front of a small live audience. I’m guessing the original comment is referring to the ‘92 election set being very much in the style of Top Of The Pops.
@@bosserman444Top of the Pops was a pop music show on BBC1 that focused on the top 30 (later top 40) charts. It mixed performances by bands of their latest chart hitters in a studio set that looked like a nightclub with pop videos or a dance troupe dancing to the track of a song if a band couldn’t make it to the studio.
That is seriously oppression and wants writing about. No prevention of dangers to kids is achieved by a voting age, and it is now 50 years since book Escape From Childhood, by school liberaliser John Holt, 1971, made the case that it's perfectly practical not to have one, and to start voting whenever personally motivated to. I passed British Con (now called Politics) O-level at 13, + no adult raving over it ever said a word about votes at that age as a result.
@@measelcatches3202 true, though if I think correctly, the way in which votes are counted are similar to how Britain counts. Britain counts votes in constituencies, 650 different areas of the U.K. I may be wrong, but don’t the US count in counties similar to constituencies? Thus, you would simply have to upsize everything and it shouldn’t take too long.
The thing I really don't understand about American elections is how they can declare somebody as the winner on the basis of 5% of the votes having been counted in a particular Congressional district. In the U.K., we would never dream of doing something so presumptuous!
@@markwrenn8569 tbf, for some of the states it’s pretty obvious who will win, and there’s not much point in drawing it out. As an equivalence, you could take the individual states as mini countries, and the projections as the exit polls.
There was a different intro in Feb 1974, that one is from October only. Re 1970 there was a proper intro later on that night, that opener wasn't it as they were only on for a short while before returning later for the full results.
to be honest, I really like watching old black and white videos. But the King Arthur theme is always be the gorgeous initial of election program in UK, if I could say.
My favourite introduction would be probably the 1997 one. It showed the beauties of the United Kingdom, the White Cliffs of Dover, the fields, the rivers, the cities. And of course Arthur. The 2019 one used Arthur so that was a plus but the intro video is so generic, being used for the 2015, 2017, 2019 elections. Why can't the BBC's budget update to another one? Also, the song was less enthusiastic and dramatic.
Because election coverage is so expensive, they fully replace the designs every four-five years (the normal length of a Parliament). Any 'extra' elections re-use the last design.
1959 and 1964 they went with the Battle of Agincourt from Walton's music for the film of "Henry V". By 1966 it was the frantic Allegro from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which was (allegedly) Shostakovich's portrait of Stalin.
Honestly I think the best o these is 2019. T uses the classic Arthur theme with an update to take it out of the 80s, with nice visuals that were admittedly getting a little stale by then. 2010, 2005 and 1983 are also personal favourites. Hoping this year to see new visuals with Arthur where it belongs.
Not British at all, but do like introductions. Here's my favorites - Between 1945-1983 (Pre-CGI): 1974 (6:12) - smooth cinematography showing the different people and jobs on election night. Highly Commend 1964 (3:01) for trying to do that with the whole team behind the scenes walking around the floor, although it does look a bit silly to us nearly 60 years later. - Between 1987-2005 (CGI, Pre-HD): 2001 (11:57) - is the only one in these introductions which focuses on the issues facing the voting public. Critiques with media in Westminster based parliaments is that we focus so much on *who* will be prime minister (which the public don't vote on, the public vote on local members who are part of parties) rather than what the voting public are trying to achieve with their vote. I commend 1992 (9:53) for trying to update the 1974 introduction (shows the whole team not just the presenters), but I like 1974 more because this one seem to be media naval-gazing. 2010 onwards: I like none of these. 2019 (18:08) is ok I guess.
If the 1983 intro wasn't fully digital, it certainly had CGI elements. The BBC had Quantel Paintbox CGI by then- so the effects were definitely a hybrid of CGI and traditional graphics.
I love the 1979 one, with the perfect Arthur and stunning graphics. The 1983 intro comes very close, but that version of the theme sounds very much The Who, either Who's Next or Tommy era. 1974 is fabulous though. Incredibly well-edited, edgy and artsy. The percussion is jazz, man! Hyping up the tension.
The UK’s Prime minister elected: 1945 - Clement Attlee (Labour) 1950 - Clement Attlee (Labour) 1951 - Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1955 - Anthony Eden (Conservative) 1959 - Harold Macmilan (Conservative) 1964 - Harold Wilson (Labour) 1966 - Harold Wilson (Labour) 1970 - Edward Heath (Conservative) February 1974 - Harold Wilson (Labour) October 1974 - Harold Wilson (Labour) 1979 - Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1983 - Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1987 - Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1992 - John Major (Conservative) 1997 - Tony Blair (Labour) 2001 - Tony Blair (Labour) 2005 - Tony Blair (Labour) 2010 - David Cameron (Conservative) 2011 - UK’s Alternative Vote referendum (‘No’ wins) 2015 - David Cameron (Conservative) 2016 - Brexit wins 2017 - Thereza May (Conservative) 2019 - Boris Johnson (Conservative)
If you want to include the local elections and Alternative Vote referendum in 2011 and the EU membership referendum in 2016 in this collection, it's a bit weird that there's no mention of the EEC membership referendum in 1975, the devolution referenda in Scotland and Wales in 1979 and 1999, and the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, don't you think?
The 2015 westminster one was reused in 2017 as it was a surprise snap election same with 2019 nobody expected an election in December. Here's hoping they come up with something new this year for 2024
In February 1974 the theme and opening titles were different to October. The theme was Copland's Fanfare of the common man, and the opening can be seen here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nzyQG95bISY.html
I would quite like to know who at the BBC looked at the new opening used yesterday and thought, yeah, that’s good, we can use that. It was pretty awful even if I’m glad Arthur is still around
True, but they made up for it in the end...I realize computer graphics were crap back in the day, but yikes, they turned David Steel into a dot matrix gremlin.
Today is Election Day. I'm hoping that Labour wins Though I'd also be happy with lib dem Today's the day that we can actually ask for meaningful change after five years of hell.
