Andrew Wiseman’s Television Room hosts an archive of restored TV logos and station idents, spanning 1936 to the present day. It’s ideal for students of TV history, nostalgia buffs and those with an ironic appreciation of tat from simpler times. Fans of the subject can savour the fascistic overtones of the early BBC and stare in awe at Harlech TV’s monstrous Op-Art mayhem. Others can thrill to the arrival of colour, experiments with tartan, and Kenny Everett's enormous breasts rising from the Thames. The site also hosts a collection of vintage test cards and clocks that we, as loyal viewers, have come to know and love.
For more, see Transdiffusion and the Harlech House of Graphics.
Cool.
Posted by: Dan Collins | April 05, 2007 at 12:38
Dan,
If you approach it with the appropriate level of postmodern irony, you can spend a worrying amount of time there. Or maybe that's just me.
Posted by: David Thompson | April 05, 2007 at 12:54