The one with the girl and the puppet. What is it from. Mitchell&Webb use a similar one for there postwar game show.
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That test pattern they use before the gig begins
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Pyrtwist wrote: The one with the girl and the puppet. What is it from. Mitchell&Webb use a similar one for there postwar game show.
Guessing it's the old Beeb one http://www.mediacollege.com/video/test-patterns/television/bbc-f1997.jpg
Also famously seen in the brilliant "Life on Mars" with John Simm....love that show! Picked up the Complete Series when out in SF for the first show of the NA Tour.
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It's called the Test Card. It was displayed by the BBC in periods when there was no programme being broadcast to allow people to tune in their TVs. It was normally accompanied by some easy listening music, to check sound levels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test\_Card\_F
Interestingly, New Order will return to a very different Britain to the one they left.
Biginoil wrote:
Interestingly, New Order will return to a very different Britain to the one they left.
Was always more a 'Teletext' man myself
Gazman wrote:
Biginoil wrote:
Interestingly, New Order will return to a very different Britain to the one they left.
Was always more a 'Teletext' man myself
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