Thank you so much for putting these together! There were several I hadn't seen before, as well as a few that I originally captured. The test pattern, "GOOD MORNING" and "GOOD NIGHT" (all caps), and the frame from the national anthem film with the flag in the middle were all captured in the early 2000's with an early model Olympus digital camera pointed at the TV while playing my original VHS recordings from around 1983ish. Sadly I only have the last few seconds of that sign-off as my mom recorded the end of a John Wayne movie over the rest, but I do have the complete sign-on including 15 minutes of test pattern and music and a slide showing the Jerry Goetsch Band with a voice-over announcement that they would be on later that morning, and then leading into the beginning of Dudley DoRight. I have digitized them and can provide higher quality versions of those slides if you'd like, and a listing of the songs played during the test pattern. I'd sure love to see the full sign-off again, it used to scare me as a kid, with the announcer's deep booming voice and Sir Seven standing there as if he could see me and was scolding me for not being asleep yet. Then after the announcement they would play the anthem, and then the sign-off slide would come on again for a couple seconds (as if Sir Seven was making one last check if I was asleep yet) until it went to static.
If there's anyway you share what you have it would be greatly appreciated. The color bars and sign on/off slides i got from a website. I believe it was called across the pond. I did not know they were yours.
Thank you so much for putting these together! There were several I hadn't seen before, as well as a few that I originally captured. The test pattern, "GOOD MORNING" and "GOOD NIGHT" (all caps), and the frame from the national anthem film with the flag in the middle were all captured in the early 2000's with an early model Olympus digital camera pointed at the TV while playing my original VHS recordings from around 1983ish.
Sadly I only have the last few seconds of that sign-off as my mom recorded the end of a John Wayne movie over the rest, but I do have the complete sign-on including 15 minutes of test pattern and music and a slide showing the Jerry Goetsch Band with a voice-over announcement that they would be on later that morning, and then leading into the beginning of Dudley DoRight. I have digitized them and can provide higher quality versions of those slides if you'd like, and a listing of the songs played during the test pattern.
I'd sure love to see the full sign-off again, it used to scare me as a kid, with the announcer's deep booming voice and Sir Seven standing there as if he could see me and was scolding me for not being asleep yet. Then after the announcement they would play the anthem, and then the sign-off slide would come on again for a couple seconds (as if Sir Seven was making one last check if I was asleep yet) until it went to static.
If there's anyway you share what you have it would be greatly appreciated. The color bars and sign on/off slides i got from a website. I believe it was called across the pond. I did not know they were yours.
if you want you can send them to me via email. i'll send you my email when you respond.
@@danhendrickson7708Haha, I wrote Across the Pond all those years ago! :) Glad you noticed it and it was of use to you.
@@danhendrickson7708Sure thing!
@@danhendrickson7708 Sent now, enjoy :) Hope someone out there can still find a sign-off in its entirety.