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		Doxin 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Television is 100 years old today It's kind of amazing the sort of hoops people needed to jump through to make e.g. the BBC-1 ident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfpEZDeVo00

lebuffon 28 days ago [–]

It seems like imagination was more common in those days. There was no "digital" anything to lean on.

alamortsubite 28 days ago | [–]

The live-action PBS idents from the early 90's were some of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ap_JRofNMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJpiIyBkUZ4

This mini doc shows the process:

https://youtu.be/Q7iNg1dRqQI?t=167

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