BBC1 trailer, link announcer Peter Brook, weather & closedown 13th September 1980

[@stuartharris2165]

That wasn;t the usual National Anthem being played.

[@j0hnf_uk]

Someone forgot to wind up the gramophone when the national anthem came on.

[@jamesmitchell8922]

What an unusual closedown

[@tv68uk]

How did they manage to go straight from the clock to the globe? I thought they had to do a fade down to black to give the camera time to reposition? Maybe they'd done a recording of the globe with the music already on?

[@Glamking1]

The first nationwide closedown across the U.K. after the local regions nodded farewell.

[@ADCTVCollection]

I have a closedown from 27th March 1981 on BBC1 Midlands. link below to that video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJSwipKvg7OVmbc

[@BelfastGav]

I think BBC1 Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales would all still have been doing their own particular closedown routines that night - with or without varying degrees of network content, such as Jack Scott doing the weather (the 'Weatherman' was almost always shown in NI unless NI was doing more than following it with NI Late News and Weather.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

Strange arrangement of the national anthem!

[@taofanarchy96-renzomaracas14]

5:45 Wrong pitch GSTQ

[@Glamking1]

If you put 0.5x on KZbin, you have it slower.

[@ADCTVCollection]

It's not the wrong pitch, there is more than one version of the National Anthem. And this is one of the others that the BBC used at the time. Some of the ITV regional companies used other versions too.

[@Glamking1]

@@ADCTVCollection there was an ATV version of the national anthem played on a church organ at St Chads Catherdal, Birmingham.

[@brianpendergest5159]

Battle of Britain great film

[@AntonFanify]

Peter Brook announcing

[@ADCTVCollection]

Thanks for the info.

[@flatoutflatbroke]

Flood the cowling, plenty of it.

[@daros194]

When did the version of the National Anthem change to the one used in the latter part of the decade and 1990's?

[@stickytapenrust6869]

That version was introduced in 1972 and was used in conjunction with the slower one heard on some other 1979/80 closedowns until about 1980/81, when it became the de facto version for closedown. *This* version is an oddity!

[@redd605]

Now I know why I watched little TV .TV is better now because of the choice, and www being invention

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

there was better fucking choice on the telly then than there is now, cheeky cunt