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by lebuffon 139 days ago
Our station had an art department that used a hot press to create text boards that were set on an easel that had a camera pointed at it. By using a black background with white text you could merge the text camera with a camera in the studio and "super-imposed the text into the video feed.

"And if you tell the kids that today, they won't believe it!"
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Doxin 139 days ago
It's kind of amazing the sort of hoops people needed to jump through to make e.g. the BBC-1 ident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfpEZDeVo00
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lebuffon 139 days ago
It seems like imagination was more common in those days. There was no "digital" anything to lean on.
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alamortsubite 138 days ago
The live-action PBS idents from the early 90's were some of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ap_JRofNMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJpiIyBkUZ4

This mini doc shows the process:

https://youtu.be/Q7iNg1dRqQI?t=167

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