Saturday, November 21, 2020
TV nostalgia just got easier. Ravensbourne College have uploaded over 3000 BBC opening titles, promotional trailers, stings, idents and programme content sequences to a new website. Officially it's for graphic design students to study the history and development of motion graphics from the 1940s to the early 2000s, in case they ever need to know that the intro to Breakfast Time was produced by backpainting animation cels and filming them on a rostrum camera. But the site's also freely available to interested members of the general public, so if you simply want to explore the classic suite of BBC2 idents, follow the evolution of Animal Magic, reacquaint yourself with Bugs or endlessly replay the opening to The Good Life, there's tons to explore. Here's a selection.
I lost hours in the BBC Motion Graphics Archive. Pick one, dive in and tune out.
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