BBC1 Ceefax AM - Mon 2 Jan 1989 - One Of A Crowd
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- Incomplete from the start - a big Bank Holiday Ceefax transmission from 2 Jan 1995 - One Of A Crowd must've started up at the usual time of 5.52am and we join the latter tracks from that tape here before a rare 'link track' is used at 06:50/30 after One Of A Crowd finishes. Then after the link track - a new tape 'March From The Merry War' starts at 06:53/35 and takes us through to the BBC1 start-up at 7.10am. Footage very kindly passed onto me by Bryan Green who is the source of the material :-)
I used to work with these primitive Teletext graphics on the BBC Micro, and even as primitive as they are, they can still be used to put snow on the BBC schedule titles for a festive look! Lovely!
Only Steve Davis could suffer from exhaustion playing snooker.
Additionally, it was only 23 years ago, but life was slower, and I miss it.
The last days of beautiful music! A few years later, depressing supermarket music took over!
This is beyond superb. The last year of the 1980s was to bring big changes on the BBC. By the later months of this year, Ceefax had been completely overhauled and in fact by Christmas was confined to a very short showing at the beginning of the day.
However, it is great to reminisce about the early days of January 1989 when Pages from Ceefax reigned supreme all morning with fully played-out tapes- with link tracks in between.
You are so right there indeed too-thank you of course!
Thank you there too. As before you are right about Ceefax particularly in 1989 alas when the BBC decided to limit its showing on both BBC1 and BBC2. Due to showing many more programs, by the end of the year it was hardly shown any more like it had been before where it used to be on much more so too. A shame really, but I guess they decided then to do so too.
Around the June that year was when ceefax was not shown so much due to programs on instead.
Ceefax was awesome!
Absolutely cracking! Beautiful footage from the opening days of 1989, still with Christmas effects on some of the Ceefax pages. I adored those closing tracks from One of a Crowd and the link track reminded me of Hill Street Blues.
Why does this make me feel so sad
Interesting hearing the link track, it's track 2 from the maximus music tape Rio Dancanaro that, I believe, was no longer being played by then.
I think that BBC1 by this point no longer had much in the way of longer CEEFAX broadcasts beyond CEEFAX AM so I don't think they needed link tracks a lot, as BBC2 had a little more air-time for CEEFAX until the spring of 1989 and so link tracks between each tape was few and far between hence BBC1 were out-of-date with their link tracks.
0:22 They 'solved' the problem by shipping in nurses from overseas. Nothing against that, just interesting to see the outcomes of some of these news pieces from the perspective of the future.
And now the issue is re-emerging after bravoromeoechoxrayindiatango.
24:00 onwards wow, WWII German Army, lol. It is German WWII tanks moving along the road in numbers, obviously before they got there arses handed to them by the Russians. Just sounds so WWII.
Oh my God one of the crowd now that is so awesome I never heard of this song before so what time did you record it and it said Monday the 2nd of January and is it 1989 that is very cool video and I love it so much.
Sounds like the link track was being played from the source LP.
Who's Soundtrack Is This.
Reels of specially recorded music supplied by Mozart Edition UK to the BBC for broadcast utility.
Why does this say 1989 when you have put 1995 I wonder? I am not sure!
Its definitely from 1989 going by the football info
And it certainly cannot be 1995 with Margaret Thatcher as prime minister! These two tapes, One of a Crowd and March from the Merry War began in the late autumn of 1987 and lasted until 1991, also ruling out 1995!
@@leejenwin1937 I am sure you are of course so right there then too!
It's a big shame that a whole load of garbage fills the BBC1 and BBC2 daytime schedules instead of the Test Card and music.
@mat mells
it's not woke at all.
Carol Hersee, Bubbles The Clown and Ceefax accompanied by music got larger audiences than Homes Under The Hammer, Bargain Hunt and Escape to The Country combined, and that per hour for several hours. I watched it for hour after hour you know, so did millions of others. And would do again if it ever returned.
@@dvidclapperton If only of course too surely?!