The Greatest Title Sequence I've Ever Seen
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- čas přidán 20. 12. 2020
- Or: "Tom's Cockup Trip".
This is a story about a television title sequence, and about me, as a child, watching it. It’s also a warning about how CZcams won’t last forever, and it's the reason I'm climbing one particular hill in the Lake District. Merry Christmas, Denis Norden.
DoP: Simon Handley from Skylark Aerial Photography www.skylark-aerialphotography...
Music: Benjamin Squires www.benjaminsquires.co.uk/
Animation: Matt Ley www.mattleywow.com/
Thanks to John Hoare and the Lake District National Park Authority
Filmed safely: www.tomscott.com/safe/
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I know this video's a bit personal; it's not the sort of thing I normally do. But it seemed like a good story to tell for Christmas.
@@brynx_ g
2 weeks ago?!?!
Hmm 3 weeks ago
@@brynx_ g
another time travel ?
From now on, I'm going to call it "spinning the compass" when someone goes the extra mile
We had jumping the shark and growing the beard and now we have spinning the compass. I like it!
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Wind the frog! :D
r/extramile ?!? I'm so confused
There is a very similar phrase of “bumping the lamp” from the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. One scene had real swinging lamp as a light source and the animators went the extra mile to make sure the lighting on the animated Roger Rabbit character was perfect in every frame. Quite time consuming back in the 1980s.
Final thought...I guess if I were to do it all again the OS map would be replaced with an iPad with google maps, the laser with a transitional glitch, I would have used a drone with a lidar scanner to create a point cloud for the terrain using MR for the scene. Denis would be a digital avatar using body and facial capture generated live from a MoCap studio. If Star Wars can do it then it’s only a matter of time…
👏
@Chris Hart.…. Now THAT I'd like to see... "It'll be OK on YT"?
But why an iPad, though? An Android/Windows tablet (a Surface Pro, for example) would be more appropriate, since obviously Android is a Google thing, and Microsoft and Google have a better relationship than Google and Apple do.
Though, I get your point. IPads have become the default brand for tablets, just like Kleenex.
Hi Chris! That's so wonderful that you got to see your work appreciated. How did you make the Compass spin??????
@Gazza Boo Cheers. Great points - it's probably something as simple as that. Amazing video, this was one of Tom's best. Cool how a title sequence from all those years ago has made us appreciate the work of these people.
Tom: *talks about how important is the work of those who work behind the camera*
The camera guy: *literally walking uphill backwards*
Could be a drone
He’s most likely walking forwards, it’s a 360 degree camera
@@rotor7135 watch 17:42 , not a 360 degree camera
you watched to the end, right?
Same here!
“They bothered to make the compass spin”. This reminds me of a story I heard about the original Lord of the Rings trilogy. The armourers and leatherworkers were so enthusiastic that they engraved the different cultural motifs/insignia on the inner areas of garments/equipment despite knowing it would not be visible on the screen. I think that kind of passion bleeds over into the visible work, and the audience appreciated the authenticity.
PS - I only discovered Tom 24 hours ago, and this content is lovely.
you're in for a treat, Tom has years of videos about the weird, interesting, and insightful. He's well into my list of top 10 youtubers.
I can't remember which director said it but "one single detail won't matter much but thousand will pave a way"
@@Logarithm906 Very much agree!
When WETA switched to 8k, they didn't have any extra details to add. Fantastic work
@Robert Martin, Bernard Hill (King Theoden) spoke about this during an interview and said how it had helped him to immerse himself in the character.
Can we just appreciate the dude filming this climbing a steep hill BACKWARDS whilst holding a camera and keeping Tom steady in centre shot
I've always assumed with no evidence whatsoever that Matt does a lot of the filming.
Definitely sounded like him in the cockup at the end
Consumer drones are capable of this.
@@spartan8705 Description says otherwise
I'm not entirely convinced that it's Matt. Wouldn't his radio workplace have more going-ons as Christmas comes near ? Also if it was I'm sure he'd be credited...
I hope whoever had the idea of making that compass spin watches this video
I was just about to make a very similar comment. The whole team should watch this.
I have a feeling they will
Me too.
It was...
Magneto
it was me. i compas sman
Having just watched the "Last" video, I want to say that this is my favorite. On lots of levels. Well done and congratulations.
This one was always special
I came back to watch this too after his goodbye video. I have to agree with you as it is also my favorite Tom Scott video. I'm amazed by how amazed Tom is with this title sequence. What a pro!
So Tom (and cameraman!) walked that entire distance for a full 18 minutes, did it in one take (even if there were multiple attempts), and arrived at the exact correct point just as the dialogue concluded. That's great work.
and cameraman walked backwards!
it's maybe a drone
@@paarthsstudio you can see from the outtake at the end that it's a cameraman
really one take? so when that cockup happened they just went back down and did it again? thats amazing
@@grqfes I can't say I checked for any cutaways, but Tom often does one-take videos, so I wouldn't be surprised.
Here's hoping the guy who moved the compass needle sees this.
Didn’t you watch the video? It wasn’t a person, it was a magic laser beam.
I'd think they put some kind of electric magnet underneath the table to do it.
No. Lasers.
I'm a professional youtube commenter and I can confirm it was definitely lasers
I really hope the magic laser sees this video. It's really hard to get ablative propulsion off a piece of paper without any discharge being visible or without significant damage to the paper. That must have been a lot of effort.
More thoughts...When making these sequences I know, that at best, they will only be seen a couple of times, so it’s surprise to discover a young boy would remember them and make a film about one in particular.
IIRC, Cockup Trip aired a total of five times. Original TX was 12/10/1996, then repeated 21/9/1997, 9/5/1998, 31/7/1999 and 6/5/2000.
How is your other comment so big and this one not at all? Here have a comment to boost the rankings.
this is absolutely amazing
Well done, sir :)
Real life: Throwing pebbles, not really knowing where they will land and sometimes, sometimes being allowed to see a ripple in the river of time you just know was caused by one of yours...
I was working in CG in 1996. That title sequence was the subject of coffee break conversations. The thing about VFX is that most of the time we were trying to go unnoticed. We even had a saying, "For 99% of the time, if you can see that we did something its because we did it wrong." It was, and mainly still is, all about selling the shot, making the audience not even think to question what they see. So being able to show-off a bit is a cool gig for an effects artist.
I love how this video made me nostalgic for something I never knew existed.
Anemoia
When I saw the "advert break incoming" symbol I was half way to the kitchen to make a cup of tea before I stopped myself. Old habits die hard.
Yes yes yes
I wondered what that black an white thing in the corner was, thanks xD
Maybe it could be a thing to sync the parts of the show too, because of the recording technics or something, i don't know ^^"
@@Vlad-kf7hw IIRC this sort of symbol in a corner was used to mark the ending of a tape, so the technician knows when to switch to the next one. But that applies to cinema, maybe this is a TV-specific thing
@@janpokorny2454 My understanding is it was used by regional techs to play out the ad tape for their region at the right time, on top of the broadcast coming in centrally.
@@Vlad-kf7hw as a kid in Britain in the 90s, it meant "put the kettle on son"
Hi Tom. The whole thing was a pain in the arse but was also great fun to do. Thank you for noticing the ‘craft’ involved in producing these sequences. I was the designer responsible from No.4 through to 21 years of Alright on the Night and it was always a challenge to produce a new title for each of the shows. I am grateful to Denis Norden and the producer Paul Lewis who supported me even if they didn’t notice the compass!
WOOOOOW
Wow! Thank you for your work! It is truly appreciated
omg please tell me this is true!! Its a christmas miracle.
If you please, how did you do the map? That was super cool!
Legend!
I grew up through the 90s and 00s, I loved the fact that every single person watched that same episode at the exact same time and then going to school the next day and everyone was talking about that particular episode.
I grew up in the 70s and at school we talked about what was on Monty Python last night.
Omg yes I really miss that! Right now I feel so overwhelmed by all the different series everyone is watching. Its just impossible to keep up
Yes! This is why boxset releases SUCK. It's so antisocial.
Not a title sequence but James Burke walking along and then pointing to a rocket just as it launched (Connections) was brilliant timing.
So the cameraman had to climb up the hill, backwards, filming Tom, deploy a drone, climb down the hill to be out of the shot, and fly the drone for that ending. I feel like thats exactly what Tom was talking about in this video
Wait till the end, 360 camera used, can mount them to a back back and give them a focus point and they will keep it.
The cut certainly helped the transition.
It was not a drone, it was a helicopter. Check the credits.
I have never seen a transition as clean as that 7 to the studio floor.
When?
@@Leksaboi 6:04
I guess you're floored with their handiwork eh
@@faizalf119 i see what you did there ;)
@@brycechristensen2296 That was true 6+ years ago, but with big budgets, you can make it look exactly the same as a set, because everything on a set is controlled. Even if it isn’t a set it is easy enough to do if you are creative with it.
I love how this guy clearly loves what he does, entertaining and educating people.
Reporting
This is the EXACT reason why there is a difference between a content creator, and an artist. You, Tom, are an artist.
"...right after the break"
*ad starts*
I like that. It's a little nostalgic.
I appreciate the heads up that an ad is coming instead of being blindsided by some rando yelling at me
Im so used to the youtube model that I fully expected this video to be uploaded in parts, not that Tom was pulling a old school TV ad break.
Absolutely loved the inclusion of the rotdot for the ad break.
@@czemacleod I've never heard the cue dot referred to as a rotdot. I like it! Nice surname, by the way :)
@@FerventRebutter it was always reffered to as a rotdot where I was from as it looks like it is spinning (ROTating) (sort of). Mind that this was before the days when you could just look up what it was called on the Internet.
“They bothered to make the compass spin” should be a phrase that’s used to describe the type of dedication someone puts in for something that arguably isn’t worth it
Very much agreed.
"Bumping the lamp" is already a phrase for that kind of thing, though I guess it's slightly different.
"Dotting your I's" / "Crossing your T's" ("They thought of everything!")
@@phoule76 this is different though. To have unsorted i's and uncrossed t's is understandable but incorrect. Had they not spun the compass it would still be as correct as it is, but less good.
It's also the subconscious value we attribute, not knowing exactly why we liked this or that so much, we just get the overall feeling how amazing it was until someone points out, did you notice the compass, and the lighting, the whooshing effects? You kind of noticed them, but it was like trying to drink from a firehose. There were no metrics for the brilliancy of the performance.
This was amazing. Tears in my eyes at the End.
Likewise.
I felt tearful and I couldn't work out why! I think it's the shared nostalgia, and recognising excellence in unexpected places and the sheer exuberance of Tom. I love this video so very much (and on my second watch just saw the ads indicator top right!)
@@OldUKAds I'm from the US. I'd never heard of ad indicators until just now.
...From what?
Okay, confession time, when Tom mentioned hiding easter eggs in the background, I was kindof expecting an easter egg to be present in maybe the foliage of the hill in the background, or maybe a plane with a flag to fly by or something. Maybe I was actually missing something, or maybe I was just looking for something that wasn't there, but either way, I'm amazed by how easily I was set into a "gotta find the hidden stuff" mindset by just the mention of easter eggs.
This video had the "upcoming ad" ticker in the top right corner at the end of part 1. I think that's the only Easter egg.
The Easter Egg was up his keister the whole time
He also added End of Part One - Part Two which was used to mark where the ads go on old analogue TV.
@@qwertyTRiG glad someone else noticed.
@@TerryLawrence001 And then he forgot to make it a YT ad break. Which is sad given how many malplaced ads I've had to skip recently.
Who else loved the small detail of the spinning black and white bars just before the break
Yes!
Yes
The spinning black and white bars are a god send for anyone who were waiting for a break so they could go make a cuppa or quickly sit on the bog.
Anybody remember when they showed films, they'd cut to a silent montage picture just before and after the ads?
I'm not British either but I knew what it was because of other British CZcamsrs... was it Jay Foreman?
I'm more impressed that Tom's walking up a fairly steep hill not even getting out of breath while delivering his monologue. Thanks to working from home I can't get off the sofa without breaking a sweat
Consider what the cameraperson had to do for this.
I legit commented this and then scrolled down and was like. “Oh.”
My dude you gotta do some light exercise or something. You'll feel a lot better.
@@tomm.ymacleod9347 copied
/s
Not that steep at all, still not an easy feat
Some of Toms videos are genuinely rewatchable like episodes of your favourite TV program
That's so true, as I have just watched this for the third time!
Every once in a while I come back to this video and just smile. I don't know why, I have never seen the show and I am not a Brit, but the video just makes me smile. Cheers to you Tom.
The video does an incredible job at paying tribute to the people working behind the scenes of any production. Theres always somebody painstakingly adding dust particles to falling debris, or designing realistically accurate VFX, or making a compass spin for a few short seconds. Great stuff all around
Just what I was thinking, been almost 2 years now and I was just coming back to it because of how cheerful this video makes me
I had a dream the other night where Tom Scott, I can only assume snapped, and uploaded a CZcams video that began "I'm sitting here in this empty train car, and I'm going to yell profanity at these seagulls outside" and did just that.
I would watch it. And I assume i would learn something from his profanities.
F YOU, SEAGULLS!!
He'd somehow make it educational and/or poignant. Unless TechDiff were there, in which case it'd just be delightful chaos.
you thought it was funny in your dream or?
I'd love Tom Scott to be Yoda for a second and yell at those coconut-poking seagulls.
Tom, we dont care if your videos are personal or not, as long as they're interesting (they always are). So feel free to make any content you like!
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes absolutely! Please continue to make things that interest you!
Nicely put !!
agreed
100% yes
"I didn't need to ... but I did." Your joy in these memories and this discussion is obvious and infectious. Even to those of us who had never even heard of the original show.
You kept me for 18 min on a show I've not seen or heard of before. That's how good it was. Thank you for putting this tribute together and expanding my horizons a bit
Some people say Tom Scott is still walking to this day.
I would be concerned if he's not tho
😂
Some say that every 800 years Tom Scott's and Evan Hadfield's paths cross while both walking towards the camera.
(As with the 800 year myth about Jupiter and Saturn, they're wrong, it's more frequent than that.)
wait a sec, this comment was posted 26 min ago, but the video was posted 21 min ago!!
The kiwi approves.
The motion graphics director sure picked that hill to die on.
So did the Cameraman
Take your upvote and get out.
Badum pshhhh
@@AVeryRandomPerson railfan?
You can see yourself out.
I was about 14 minutes in when I realized why he was walking and where he was and it put the biggest smile on my face. What a great payoff!
Adding the “cue marker” before a mid roll Ad kicked it was a great little bit of nostalgia and a great Easter egg !
As soon as I heard the words “Alright on the night” I heard the theme tune in my head, I had no idea it was still going passed the 90s !
The compass anecdote reminds me of "Bumping the Lamp", a term in the VFX/Animation industry for "Going above and beyond expectations".
It refers to the scene in Roger Rabbit where Roger and Eddie are cuffed, hiding in the Speakeasy's old smuggling room, and one of the characters bumps the overhead lamp. This causes it to swing, meaning every single frame of Roger's animation needed to have the painted shadows move to a unique position relative to the lamp's constantly changing angles, a ridiculously difficult task that technically contributes nothing to the story and most people won't even notice, but was done anyway because -Richard Williams is a madman- the animators were just that dedicated.
This comment, your name, and your profile picture. Hat trick. Well done.
Roger Rabbit had a lot of impressive touches like this. Like for the penguin waiters in the nightclub, instead of just dangling their trays with wire, they built the entire set higher up so that stagehands could walk around under the set with rods going up to the trays, like this entire network of stagehands walking around under the set while shooting was going on. This can't be referred to as "bumping the lamp" because it occurred in an earlier scene, before the phrase was coined :D
Roger Rabbit was a technical masterpiece
When Jessica flies out of the car was my favourite moment.
Great anecdote!
Absolutely love how in most- non location based videos you’re just kinda going for a hike. Makes it feel like I’m hearing facts from a buddy while we go on a walk!
Thanks for your historic recognition of the thousands of people who worked on the title sequences in the 90s I was one of those unsung heroes. Lots of technical skills have been lost. It was nice to see at least one person noticed
I like to imagine that the cameraman was just some dude trying to enjoy nature, when Tom Scott suddenly approached him and started talking, to which the cameraman carefully stepped backwards while always maintaining eye contact for 20 minutes.
Edit: Wow this blew up!
this activated my fight or flight
I can't unsee it now and it's brilliant!
Matt likes nature shots?
"Hi, can I help you? .... keep your distance please"
"Not gonna hurt you"
"..."
"You heard of It'll be Alright on the Night?"
thank you for making my Tom Scott watching experience infinitely more enjoyable
Walking for 20 minutes uphill while delivering dialog is a magnificent skill.
Props to the camera person too :D
Keeping you in frame while walking up hill, mabey even backwards.
The kiwi approves.
G'day Haigs
Good old matt gray doing the quite literal heavy lifting of the camera
cameras can easily keep a persons face in the center of the vid. Like the DJI action
narration*
"It's also a warning how youtube won't last forever"
I'll be honest, i can't imagine life without youtube. So many youtubers make me howl with laughter, amaze me with their musical skills, or damn good video's. I know it won't last forever, but... would it end within our lifetime? I think not to be fair
People's creativity and passion will last much longer than CZcams. Mediums can end but humans will never stop creating
without youtube, there will be another platform, tiktok or whatever, where creators make you laugh.
to be fair, it very nearly did not all that long ago. it's definitely plausible.
It will be replaced by something else you can't imagine living without.
Very true. For me, saying "I don't watch television, I watch CZcams" is perfectly accurate. It was the linear aspect that always got me and as soon as I could free myself and my schedule from that, I did.
Hey Tom, I think at 6:27 you can see the transition from CG to film set you said you were looking for! I believe that the red circle with the 7 is CG all the way until around 6:27, then you can see the tip of the 7 suddenly shift and seemingly move to the actual position.
I think you’re right! The distortion factor of the lens isn’t matched quite the same, and the reflections on the chrome parts of the 7 change quite significantly too. It was clever of them doing it after the spin, so that the studio camera would be stationary to match against, because most of the audience will be scrutinising most heavily when the title disappears and the studio background lighting appears (just like Tom called out).
The transition happens exactly when he says the word "...transition...", hmm...
Nice spot!
I was thinking the same thing, looks like the intro from BBC News from around that era that mixed camera movements and CGI moving at the same time. Fun fact, the superimposed grpahics on the News were played on a re-recordable version of the Laserdisc completly live during the intro as it was easy to access and had seamless playback were you could match the camera robot with the digital counter contrary to Betacam SP, this is probably the same system
You know the year is almost over when tom wears his grey hoodie instead of his red shirt
Red shirt still underneath though!
Tom Scott: Endgame
This brings to mind how Pixar actually rendered a blooper reel for Monster Inc.
Barbie movies did that, I specifically remember Ken's phone going off in the bloopers for Princess and the Pauper
And the Toy Story movies.
I loved how far they did that. It was very entertaining back when I was little and looking back, I still do too
@@the.invincible.9542 The Toy Story 2 blooper reel is especially impressive given that production on it was only 9 months.
9 MONTHS. FOR A FULLY ANIMATED MOVIE IN 1999.
@@TheRiskyBrothers wasn't toy story 2 the one that got deleted and recovered from a single pc? absolutely amazing
I think this might be your best video ever Tom. It has such personal importance while showing the impermanence, as well as the value of the medium you use. Even though it is only just shy of 18 minutes, it feels like an odyssey, even in a landscape of excessively long youtube videos. Thank you very much for this, and here's to 10 years of Tom Scott expedition videos.
This is probably the greatest and most genuine tribute to anything I’ve ever seen, and it still matches the rest of your content while honoring the show and being something you personally enjoyed. Love to see it Tim.
The only reason this had two parts is the fact that Tom needed to BREATHE at some point!
The black and white ticker before the ad break really took me back to sitting in front of an old CRT screen on a Sunday night!
This is the comment I looked for!
@@CheshireTomcat68 glad you found it! 😁
... that was something else that Tom didn't *have* to do, but did!
And suddenly I’m back watching Saturday night telly with my grandparents...
Is that a UK thing?
100% perfect ad placement
“They bothered to make a compass spin” should be a household quote tbh, id have it on a shirt or a poster
I swear Tom Scott has been saying that youtube won't last forever for forever.
Remember MySpace?
Probably at some point youtube gonna die.But we just need to wait
Rumble is the next CZcams
@@bruhbruh6389 I think the thing that CZcams has going for it, is that the creators are always free to move that production expense/profit slider any way they want, and as long as they are making compelling content (no matter how niche it is), there's very likely to be sufficient audience to make it worthwhile.
Only a little over a decade ago people would have laughed you out of town for saying Sears and K Mart would die.
Or that Blockbuster would fall to Netflix.
Of all the incredible videos you've masterfully produced Tom, I have to say this has been my favourite. You've captured the essence of what makes creativity so rewarding and vindicated artists, creators and compass animators the world over, who've ever wondered "Will anybody appreciate the attention to detail if I go the extra mile?"
Oh hi Dave
Oh hi there! Happy kfc Christmas 🎄
Hey, Chris! Merry Christmas and I hope you know I do notice the extra care YOU put in your videos, amd I love all of them. Congratulations on seeing mount Fuji, and I hope to see you going on your next adventures.
Hello! Are you CZcamsr?
I also adore the extra effort you put editing mount fuji in :D
As someone who was lucky enough to work through some of those golden years of TV, I salute you Sir. This isn't just personal, you nailed it... Thank you. 👍
(just sorry it took so long to find your work)
"I'll tell you after the break" - right before actually getting an ad
Gotta love that heavy on the sax, generic, 90's music that they still play at Chinese buffet near you.....
What time stamp?
@@Austin_Boath About near the end. Outromusic.
watch with captions on, its even funnier.
Er, no
@@myriaddsystems Er, I think most people would argue, yes.
I had a similar experience back when Pixar was still jaw-dropping amazing and at the end of "A Bug's Life" there was the "blooper reel" with the credits [a la Canonball Run] and I sat there amazed that the entire crew, from writers to animators and editors and actors created _intentional mistakes_ to tack onto the end of the movie to entertain people watching the credits while filing out of the theater. and since these clips required just as much effort n resources to create as the running movie, the producers paid for people to make these mistakes and then paid for the computing power [bleeding edge expensive] to render it all.
I think they actually animated some dubbing mistakes, then went the extra mile to add some more in there, as to mix it up with fale mistakes and make it all look like actual movie bloopers. The same happens in Monsters Inc. and Toy Story.
Agreed, I love effort
this and the old-school Barbie movies outtakes always made me enjoy these animations so much more as a kid
This made me cry openly -- which is probably a weird thing to read, but there's a subtle distinction that needs to be made: I could have cried because TV really has passed its peak (and with it, surely, so have I), and I could have cried because Tom did such a lovely job of celebrating everything he celebrates in this video, comme d'habitude. But what made me cry is the realization of something much more specific and, in its way, much more personal:
When he was a child, Tom Scott saw that episode and -- by the kind of cosmic chance that these things always have to be -- he JUST. HAPPENED. TO. BE. LOOKING. AT. THAT. COMPASS. And it quite literally changed his entire life.
Let that sink in for a moment. Had someone said something at that same instant -- had the family dog walked into the living room and nudged his shoulder, had a car horn blared outside, had someone so much as sneezed -- he would have missed that compass, just as we all did. Instead he saw it. He was looking right at it. And in that one frozen eye-blink of his life, his life was changed. Would he have gone on to be a CZcamsr? Eh, maybe. But would he have gone on to be Tom Scott? Not a chance.
Love the tiny moments that happen to you like this. Don't just "savor" and "appreciate" them, the way people tell you to -- that part's so easy as to almost count as just the opposite. No. LOVE those moments. Nurture them like children, trust them like brothers and sisters, listen to them like mothers and fathers, follow them like whispers from the Gods. Because that's exactly what they are.
@CinemaDemocratica
Actually he did say he didn’t notice any of the fine details at the time he originally watched it
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I love it when you can tell someone had fun making something. You can tell that those intros were someone’s passion project, someone’s baby that they slaved over, dedicated to making it good. Humans are great sometimes.
Saying "Merry Christmas, Denis Norden" is like how people who blew a take in a Tarantino film said "Hi, Sally!" to his late editor.
Neat bit of trivia, cheers.
There was also "Merry Christmas VT" in common use at the BBC when people screwed up and knew it would end up in the Christmas Tape Tom referenced
The ad break might have been the best Tom Scott easter egg so far, and I'm not using that statement lightly.
Honestly that was so good I wasnt even pissed at the 20 second unskippable ad
I’m glad you pointed it out, I didn’t get the joke, I was wondering why there was a random “part one” “part two” in the middle of the video.
The best bit was the ad countdown marker in the gtop right corner...
The indicator flash in the top corner just before the break was another little touch of class. Tom, I love your attention to detail.
Countdown bars at the top right are pure nostalgia and only a few people will get it
Mother of everything unholy, this video was a blast to watch.
As someone being born quite abit later than you (and not being british) I have had no idea this show ever existed to begin with, but the inspiration you've drawn out of it is amazing and the homage you're paying with the ending actually made me shed a tear of joy.
After binge-watching your videos for 3 or 4 days now, I am convinced that having subscribed to your channel is atleast 10x more benefiting for me than it is for you, cause you actually made this week so much better for me. Thank you very much and for the love of whatever you may believe in, please keep it coming.
That I can only 'like' this once is a travesty. So many layers to take inspiration from, not least the great comments. Of all your great videos, this has left me most emotional.
Wow. I never expected to be watching an 18 minute video of some stranger walking up a hill talking about the title sequence of a show I'd never heard of, and yet here I am -- and it was worthwhile!
I share your appreciation of creative individuals who go above and beyond to make something special. I hope that whoever created that title sequence is still around, and that they get to see this video.
Beautifully put, this was a lovely homage to a cultural era in which craftsmanship was king.
My only lament, miniscule in scale mind you, is there once was a time one didn't have to point out unironic intent of one's homage.
natch :-)
I had the same thoughts
Welcome to the Tom Scott channel then, I presume.
Place of discovery of the most obscure curiosities around the world.
Soon, Tom Scott will not be a stranger to you anymore :)
Tom: 'Let's go for a hike up cockup hill.'
Tom's mate: 'Cool let's go'
Tom: 'You'll be walking backwards carrying a camera.'
Tom's mate: !?!?
Tom: and every time I flub the words we're going to start over.
His mate is Matt Grey
it was drone-cam i suppose
@@vedvod actually, it's Simon Clark from Skylark Aerial Photography, as mentioned in the description and at 17:23.
@@zahmbiend6575 that was the aerial photography at the end, wasn’t it?
I’ve watched this several times now and this vid is just an absolute masterpiece and one of your best, Tom. Thank you for being as much of a nerd as I am.
In tribute to this homage, Tom you finally earned my subscription. It's a long time coming any way but it feels right to do on this video. Wonderful way to reflect and say all the right things to tell someone how much you appreciate their work.
The real hero is the guy behind the camera climbing the mountain walking backward.
"the guy behind the camera" -- You mean Matt Gray?
It was Simon Handley filming this one
@@tomvarga5515 it was definitely Matt's voice in the outtake unless Simon Handley sounds *remarkably* similar.
Edit: On a second listen, maybe not. My brain might have just filled in the gap on that since I assumed it was Matt. Hmm...
We'd be interested to see how it was done, if they are reading. I guess cameraman was walking forwards with a monitor in front of him and camera steady rig pointing backwards? I'm impressed either way.
Whoever it is, whatever the tech, that this video does not make me motion sick is a modern miracle.
Loved that black and white flashing "the adverts are coming" thing on the top right. Nice touch. I've not seen one of those in decades.
Felt nostaligc myself, haven't watched typical TV for a good long while.
The only other person that I know does it is Jay Foreman
I guess paying for YT Premium has its drawbacks.
@@mirzaahmed6589 Oh yes, same goes for Spotify to an extent. I sometimes hold off on renewing my subscription just for the nostalgia of adverts. Wish all these premium services would let you opt-in to ads even after paying for them. Really not a big ask considering all the data they mine from us regardless of what we pay :P
I noticed that, too. Absolutely in keeping with talking about a TV show on ITV back in the Nineties.
This is one of the best CZcams videos I have ever seen, and hearing you talk about something you are so passionate about cheered me up, it felt like I was genuinely hearing a story from a friend
You can hear him get more and more out of breathe as the video goes on. After watching a few of your videos I'm sure that there will always be people willing to go above and beyond even if only a few people will really appreciate it.
The god of the single take has returned.
Sorry to puncture your bubble: it was not necessarily a single take.
One or some or all of the clips interposed could have been used to hide a cut.
Not saying it was, but just saying we couldn't tell either way...
This wasn't a single take, though.
who knows if this is a full single take (except the brake of course). Maybe they did some cuts/retakes with all those full screen clips
@@trueriver1950 ...and writer/narrators like to show off their skill in recording in one take, if they can.
@@trueriver1950 It's not one take (obvious if you watch the outtake) but I'm generally very confident that each part of this video is one cut.
Gosh, this was so sincere I got choked up at the end. I've never even heard of the show, but Tom's delivery and narration was so engaging, and even touching, I started to feel nostalgic for it. Merry Christmas Tom, and merry Christmas Denis Norden. 💜
I was thinking the same
I got to feel old watching this and loved it. Forgotten how much that was a part of my childhood watching it with my parents.
The presentation is impeccable.
I'm currently taking a video production class and I have definitely gained an appreciation for video producers like the ones you mentioned. Those small and almost insignificant details mostly go unnoticed but when they're finally seen you just have to appreciate the time and effort that went into working out how that effect/transition/etc. should play out.
POV: You’re walking up a hill and Tom Scott follows you and monologues about a TV intro.
The moment you said "becasue 25 years ago someone bothered to make a compass needle spin" made me tear up a bit. I can't describe why, but I thought I'd share.
"What we do in life echoes in eternity" - Marcus Aurelius (dubious?)/Maximus from the film "Gladiator"
bro honestly that was kinda emotional especially considering the passing of Dennis being mentioned just shortly before. what a tribute this video is, eh?
Same, I don’t get it but it just made me tear up.
Okay I massively enjoyed the “adverts coming up” marker in the corner and “I’ll tell you after the break” and then actually having adverts there!!!
oh i guess my adblock was a bad thing just this time
The things I miss by paying for CZcams Premium.
Hmm... I dont block any ads on youtube on my phone but I only got an outro ad, not when the end of part 1 came up.
@@MateusSFigueiredo ad block is always a bad thing. Creators deserve to get paid.
@@Kyle-gw6qp They do, but there are much more productive ways of supporting creators than through ad revenue, especially through CZcams and other major streaming sites. Giving them money via Patreon or whatever other services they use, buying their merchandise, supporting them on smaller streaming services or even joining up with those sometimes annoying sponsored offers probably nets all but the largest creators more money per view than ad revenue can hope to match.
It also doesn't help that ads these days on many sites actively engage in particularly unsavory tracking and data collection tactics. Tom just did a video on that exact topic about a month ago. I personally wish that more sites and ad companies would engage in honest straightforward methods that wouldn't have me and others decide whether we value privacy and security over the livelihoods of others.
For some obscure reason Tom, this is possibly the best of your videos I've seen to date. Keep up the excellent work.
This is consistently one of those videos I watch over and over again. It's a near perfect example of superb storytelling. The intro of the video to the meat and potatoes and the follow through of the endinging, genuinely impressed with the who programme. Merry Christmas Tom Scott!
I'm a motion graphics designer working on a big television network. This video brought tears to my eyes. It's so hard to do things for yourself when you're working around tight deadlines and the will of people who don't know what they're. The spinning compass is hard to pull off. We all want it, most of us need it to just keep getting out of our beds, but we just don't have the time and most of the time, the energy to do so. Knowing it'll be cut out or "someone might not like it" just drains you, if you work with creativity.
I’m a young editor but I feel similarly to you, it’s feels good to have the little things be appreciated.
Deus te abençoe irmão
That "7" transition needs to be analysed by Coridor Crew.
6:28 ... You can see it fade and SLIGHTLY be off at that point (around the circle's edge). If you were to use a jib cam on a reflective surface like that, you'd a) see the jib in the 7 and b) see the lights move where they cast on the 7 as the jib flies around.
@@ShawnTempesta You sure that's not just the lights and reflection changing as the camera angle changes?
Big agree.
Or Captain Disillusion
@@ShawnTempesta Def agree. 6.28 is where the fade is. There's 1 frame where you can clearly see the CG lighter 7 not quite matching the darker real 7 (particularly the top line of the 7). Still very impressive tracking for 1993.
This is probably my favourite video on all of youtube.
Nine months on and I am on watch four. This is just well done on every level and helps me center myself and decide on who I choose to be.
As a student in archival science, your comment thanking archivists whether they are official or private, made me smile. My interest lies in the preservation of video games and video game culture, which is something that is also handled mostly by private persons rather than official archives. Really, one should never forget the importance that normal people have of saving parts of our culture for future generations.
How do you go about doing this? I was thinking about it the other day.
Given the sheer volume of stuff to archive in modern culture, even or especially video games, I'm a little in awe that you (or anyone) decided to take it on. It must be a challenge to figure out what go where, and even how it should be prioritised. Hats off to you.
@@martinzwaan2721
Thank you, especially when thinking about those I know that have spent years in this kind of business. It is quite challenging every now and then, yes, but most countries have evolved a lot of regulations around what should and should not be preserved for generations to come. Luckily they do help. Most of the time. :)
@@crazyfool4325
I honestly don't know about other countries, but in Sweden, some of the universities have classes in archival science. With a bachelor degree in that, it's quite easy to get a job in that kind of business, since few young people want to work with it (medium age seems to lie somewhere around late thirties to mid forties). I felt young during my trainee period - and I was 38.
I hope Nintendo will die. They ruined hundreds of people's effort to archive old games (technically - abandonware), many of which even Nintendo does not have anymore.
Still can’t imagine Tom as a child..
Tom never was child. Child was Tom.
Tom was probably born with a grey hoodie and red shirt underneath.
@@never8931 his clothes are actually part of his body
@@RusselsYTAcc incorrect
His clothes are his body.
@@never8931 So nothing is underneath? Or is there a huge brain underneath, that would explain a lot
Never thought a video about a 90’s tv title sequence could make me emotional.
This is a great video. Thank you 🙌
I've watched this video multiple times and I got to say that this is one of the best videos ever from this channel and maybe even the entire platform. And it's mostly just about a title sequence for a show I had no knowledge about or connection to as I'm not from the UK. Still the 18-minute long video does not feel boring at any moment. Everything starts by talking about a very obscure subject and in the end it's something much bigger. It's just fantastic.
I paused this video several times to let Tom take a break to breathe and read the next lines in the script.
BuT tHaT dOeSnT wOrK
I don't quite know why but this made me emotional. I'm too young for TV's golden age, but there's a lot of weird and wonderful internet content that has inspired me in a similar way, and that includes your videos, Tom.
Its quite amazing, is it not?
And one day we’ll be alive to see it’s final mourning.
What a genuinely, genuinely lovely video. Thanks for going above and beyond, Tom Scott.
This was genuinely inspiring. Thank you. And thank you for going the extra mile in all of your videos.
[legally-distinct theme tune] I'm glad the subtitles made that clear.
THIS is the internet.
I've never even heard about the programme (on account of being a swede), but Tom reminiscing about technical details that no-one else noticed at the time is kind of what the internet has always been: a document of the past and present, with as many nuances as there are uploaders and commentators. Even the latest tech-vids next year are going to be someone's nostalgia in the future.
Superb storytelling Tom! This one was golden.
Amazing user name!!!
Like your Layne Staley pic...
It was shown on Swedish TV in the 80s and 90s. I particularly remember the 1987 episode.
Legitimately. Man's just churnings out masterpieces over here. One of the best CZcamsrs ever
Put bloody brilliantly.
only Tom Scott can get me excited over a title sequence
The more times I watch this, the more I tear up. I am too young to ever have watched television seriously, but you just bring across the emotions so well.
Shoutout to the camera person walking backwards up hill the entire time
Is it matt?
@@Lwaldie1 Judging by the voice in the end, nope. I think it's the one who did the "what do we do in the future" section of the Copyright video
@@yuvalne What he's done before I don't know, but the credits show his name: Simon Handley.
@@yuvalne idk, it def sounds like Matt to me. His laugh is very distinct
@@wave1090 it isn’t
I am so NOT surprised that a young Tom Scott was more fascinated by a title sequence, than by the actual programme itself...
This immediately became one of my favorite videos in the world. Thank you, Tom Scott.
Cue dot! Love your work Tom, you painted a very personal picture on how art and attention to details mean something and can change a person. Inspiring.