Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve Sign-Off (1960)

3 comments:

jimmo said...

What at all is "Christmas" about this television test pattern?

It is merely the standard Indian head test pattern?

For that matter, test patterns would appear at sign-on, as well sign-off time, on broadcast TV stations, from the 1940s into the '80s.

The classic sign-on and sign-off routines of a TV station also included the playing of "The Star- Spangled Banner," in the United States of America, anyway.

Usually, the playing of "The National Anthem" at sign-on/sign-off times was in a film showing some U.S. Air Force planes in a fly-over, or of some national landmarks.

jimmo said...

What at all is "Christmas" about this television test pattern?

It is merely the standard Indian head test pattern?

For that matter, test patterns would appear at sign-on, as well sign-off time, on broadcast TV stations, from the 1940s into the '80s.

The classic sign-on and sign-off routines of a TV station also included the playing of "The Star- Spangled Banner," in the United States of America, anyway.

Usually, the playing of "The National Anthem" at sign-on/sign-off times was in a film showing some U.S. Air Force planes in a fly-over, or of some national landmarks.

jimmo said...

What at all is "Christmas" about this television test pattern?

It is merely the standard Indian head test pattern?

For that matter, test patterns would appear at sign-on, as well sign-off time, on broadcast TV stations, from the 1940s into the '80s.

The classic sign-on and sign-off routines of a TV station also included the playing of "The Star- Spangled Banner," in the United States of America, anyway.

Usually, the playing of "The National Anthem" at sign-on/sign-off times was in a film showing some U.S. Air Force planes in a fly-over, or of some national landmarks.