The Adams Chronicles Closing (1976)/ PBS Logo (1971)/ SMPTE Foot (1976)

From "John Adams, President". From a 16mm print.

[@daniellemullen5035]

ALRIGHT!! Who let the orchestra members get drunk!

[@ArchiveofAwesomeness1886]

it's not the orchestra, it's whoever owned this print and did not take care of it, as always.

[@Mark_TDD]

@@ArchiveofAwesomeness1886 It's joke

[@jadsi]

ArchiveofAwesomeness1886 r/wooosh

[@bradmcdill73]

This is a warped copy.

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

*cue the Not Me routine*

[@brandonmeenan8075]

Very warped.

[@vibincat03]

2:11 Scared The Shit Out Of Me LOL

[@NECHOII]

*I WOULD'VE LOVED TO SEE THAT AT THE END OF ''MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL JUST BEFORE THE CLOSING MUSIC!*

[@CarlitoBrigante47623]

@@NECHOII yes!😂

[@Sergio_kit2011]

Come home PBS, You are drunk

[@CarlitoBrigante47623]

The pbs kids are at home asleep from being babysat

[@stokepogue]

Weird that the music producer's name is John Adams

[@jadsi]

2:09 Welcome to my/our nightmares. 😱😵

[@oscarflores1980]

I've already recorded this whole wrapped video on audio cassette.

[@ericpurkey7502]

The recording sounds like it would when I turn 100 years old in 2076.

[@jeshkam]

😂🤣

[@imrustyokay]

I just noticed that the music producer is named "John Adams". XD

[@plushblueep]

2:09 For those who watch my Pani TV videos...

[@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386]

The warping makes this sound kinda creepy...

[@THXAndFoxDisneyFan2003-tl8be]

Agreed!

[@jadsi]

For anyone who is wondering what the hell is happening, the problem is not the filmstrip. That I definitely know, but I think it has to do with the equipment used to transfer the film to digital. I think the audio is uncalibrated, and has probably been through a lot. I am not exactly sure that that is the case, however that is just my take on what happened.

[@jadsi]

@TheBrokenKitsumanoid No... just no. I find it suspicious how almost the entire Educational Films collection on the Internet Archive had this transferring method where the colours are off, and the sound is unstable. I feel like they couldn't afford new equipment or they just didn't care as long as the films were transferred. I really do not see anything special about the colours or sound being like that. Not to mention no transfers beforehand existed like that.

[@diannekelley2307]

@@jadsi I actually have a theory on that. I think these transfers were originally normal, with no warps, and no color-distortion. However when the main publisher in the collection (sot237) edits the transfers, he adds the unstable audio and the color-distortion to, in some people's words, "set the mood", however, in the process, makes them a LOT more horrible.

[@jadsi]

@@diannekelley2307 That also makes sense. If that’s true I don’t know what the hell they were smoking!

[@sakura_sauce]

@@jadsi Honestly I think that the unit they used is just really badly worn down. To me personally I feel like the possibility of the person who uploaded the videos adding effects post scan sounds very outlandish, like I don’t understand why you would go to all that scanning effort just to ruin the viewing experience. It’s definitely the unit used needing repairs, like the colours and sound that these uploads have seem impossible to digitally recreate, the defects were definitely present during the scan due to the really shoddy machine.

[@tehbrazspartan]

The Warpness

[@Thunderbirds501]

*i was not prepared for **2:09*

[@jadsi]

Ya think?!

[@NECHOII]

*PBS FILMS!*

[@blueberry6036]

*YAAAAAAA*

[@NECHOII]

*THERE WASN'T EVEN PRE-RECORDED VIDEO, ('till one year later) LET ALONE ''PBS HOME VIDEO''!*

[@mauravids1755]

mmk I'll be right back........p head why DA LIVING HECK WERENT YOU SCARED AT 2:11 IT SCARED DA CRAP OUTTA ME!!!

[@NECHOII]

*BECAUSE AS YOU CAN SEE, HE'S PART OF IT! (that's why @**1:52** he sounds like he's on coke.)*

[@blueberry6036]

*OH CRUD YO RIGHT!!! R DEUEEJJ EUEIER DED JEIEHFJRUD SSRUDJDJD REIDUDJDJEEIEHDD DUEEEEEJEIDUEPSJ*

[@NECHOII]

*WELL, COURSE I'M RIGHT!*

[@stephanierossi2586]

Can you look for the 16mm film of the PBS logo Christmastime variant where there were three thick candles that are blue orange and green on a dining room table it writes out season's greetings then the candles will transform into the PBS logo, do you have it

[@calebproductions5970]

Cool

[@robloxyessidthekidno6642]

PBS AND SMPTE FOOT WITH WOMAN AND 3X BEEP

[@NECHOII]

*FOR UPDATES ON THE 1971 PBS LOGO AND FOR PBS HISTORY, BE SURE TO INCLUDE THIS PARTICULAR VERSION OF THAT PARTICULAR PBS LOGO! IT IS THE MOST DRUGGED-UP SOUNDING I'VE EVER HERD FROM IT!*

[@jadsi]

That’s not a variant

[@nathanyoungtheonemillionfan]

Warped film uploaded by TVTA?! WHAT?!

[@SpunchBop721]

2:12 LOL

[@SpunchBop721]

2:11 hmmm

[@pattibreton6393]

strange beeps at 2:11

[@officialSgtPepperArc360]

2:11 - _WHO'S THAT?_

[@aldensvintagepbsarchive2289]

0:01 When the oxylotl opens it's mouth

[@SmithJrBlaquaLuigi]

So you called "PBS SMPTE" you say? They used to use the modulator pitcher from their machine to make it look old. ;)

[@NECHOII]

*THIS WAS THE VERY YEAR THAT VHS TAPES WERE COMING OUT (1976), BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY PRE-RECORDED VHS TAPES UNTIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR! (1977)*

[@PP-bs3od]

That wow and flutter is very severe in this video.

[@jimscottsoldchannel7103]

How do they make the Comic Sans font rotate vertically and scroll up so fast?

[@reesetube]

That font didn't exist until 1994, bud.

[@Dastan-o2f]

2:10 Technology Sound?

[@iquitokay]

1:52

[@buckster2575]

This sounds very British and stuffy.

[@cineplexuk-fabian7976]

God, PBS is drunk because the filmstrip audio quality is bad and awful. And how come the videotape credits copied on the 16mm copy?

[@Nimrod1966]

See, that's simply... the way it WAS! Back in the day, a lot of us considered ourselves lucky just to be able to SEE something like this! Man... it takes me back to a simpler time. It scares me that one day, people will look at NETFLIX, HULU, DISNEY+, etc... and say... "yeah, good times!", however, when I first subscribed to Netflix, I used to get the CDs (yes, that's right) in the MAIL, so... yeah... sheesh! 😞

[@loser2466]

To me it looks like what they did was use a 16mm film camera and put in some 16mm film and just filmed it off of a TV set cause there's no way you can transfer videotape onto film, it's like a color Kinescope since it has the audio synced up with the film except I guess it's warped due to it being an optical soundtrack or the projector idk, and besides the picture looks videotaped, I can tell by the candle because the footage does not look filmed it looks videotaped I can tell by the smooth fps of how the flame on the candle moves

[@marella-yoplaitlimited7745]

​@@loser2466yeah, you got is a point. If the VHS tape just converted to a film print just like Filmfair Communications & Arthur Monkin Productions, the colors may go very blurry as well as the p head itself will look even darker blue as it was. So, I believe why would the creators do, is that the actual print was videotaped. I don't know exactly what the fuck is this projector oh well. Bullshit. Right. Sheesh

[@loser2466]

@@marella-yoplaitlimited7745 When I say videotape I meant like as in a quadruplex videotape not VHS

[@marella-yoplaitlimited7745]

@@loser2466 I say but that's true I guess

[@tammymayes5372]

2:11 it's SUSAN she was born in 1934. (died 2024)

[@edlaske227]

The woman snack sleepy in the film

[@edlaske227]

The woman is not creepy in the film

[@NatsukiHoshiko_Reimu]

The ending credits are drugged up

[@stephenfisher5129]

Creepy!

[@89horizon]

Wow... John Adams was the Music Producer as well?? Sure sounds like it! :P

[@charlesrogers247]

What is that woman’s name 2:11

[@honokathecartoonnetworkfan2858]

Her name is TAYLOR HUTCHERSON. She was born in 1941 and died in 2019

[@jadsi]

@@honokathecartoonnetworkfan2858 really?

[@honokathecartoonnetworkfan2858]

@@jadsi yeah

[@charlesrogers247]

China girl 2:11

[@cyanish954]

I'm tired name of LogoMMOs.

[@No-fh4gf]

what the heck is going on the music is getting a little glitchy and after the 1971 PBS logo it started to show a glitch out even it showed a zero second woman standing there staring at the screen can you tell me what's going on here

[@NECHOII]

*IN THE WORDS OF THE FIRST TITLE COVER OF THE {BLACK METAL} BAND VENOM: ''WELCOME TO HELL''!*

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Probably the projector itself used to run this on that has that problem.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It's known as a "China Girl".

[@PP-bs3od]

@@NECHOII *WHY DO YOU POST ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS IN ALL UPPERCASE AND BOLD?*

[@NECHOII]

*BECAUSE IT'S MY STYLE OF TYPING!*

[@FumoReimuGaming]

Ok

[@NECHOII]

*AND PEOPLE WERE SCARED OF THAT PARTICULAR PBS LOGO AS THEY SAW IT ON VHS (on occasional Vestron Video releases as well as other shit.) BUT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN IT ON AN ORIGINAL FILM REEL UNTIL NOW!*

[@davidrileynyc5702]

I wasn't . Compare that to the s from hell screen gems logo

[@jadsi]

“Evil PBS” really? >:(

[@brycelandon6387]

Drunk audio is drunk.

[@joshuaroeser4613]

Bryce Landon Agreed. It has been drinking several tons of Mountain Dew.

[@gilval808]

I wonder if the lady who appears in 2:11 is still alive ? And I wonder if she scares her own self when she watches this.

[@NECHOII]

*SHE LOOKS ALMOST LIKE SUSAN ATKINS!*

[@reesetube]

Lmao that's likely a picture of a news channel

[@loser2466]

@@reesetube it's a China Girl. They're used for testing the tone, color and all

[@LETVReturns]

@@loser2466she doesn’t look Chinese to me

[@loser2466]

@@LETVReturns They just call them that not all of the women here in these test pictures are asian

[@homemediaandcoinsgalore]

2:11 Girl caught on camera!

[@Aqwioidioty]

Is doesn't matter this logo but tvta totally have letters up side down

[@ExternalPBSCanada]

2:11 WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

[@firefish4418]

TBS 0

[@firefish4418]

J_______________()

[@stephanierossi2586]

It sounds awful