A trip back in time...

[JimN]

...though mainly of interest to UK readers of a certain age:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9otprt2mk

JN

PS: The same poster has uploaded plenty of others of the same vintage. "The Young Ballerina", anyone?

[rogera]

That certainly brings back some memories Jim!

[noelford]

Interesting and odd - I remember the potter's wheel and the horses ploughing interludes, but not the kitten.

[Didier]

In France we also had a TV interlude with a music that some Shads' fans over here now play !



Didier

[Rosemary]

A very interesting thread!

A few years ago I was trying to think of the term used for these 'interludes' and it's still driving me crazy because I feel there was another name used to describe them out here and I can't remember it. I've thought of 'filler', 'travelog? (was that a real term?)' and lots of other words from the early days of TV but none of them really hit the spot in my memory.

Anyway they were very nice and relaxing to watch especially in contrast to all the noise and sound effects on TV these days.

They were often shown just before the ABC 7 p.m. news and two I remember were the orchestral 'Eizabethan Serenade' with scenes of fountains in gardens and Lionel Long singing 'Waltzing Matilda' where they showed rippling water in the creek when he sang 'and his ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong'. I would have only been about 8 or so then but have always remembered them.

Best wishes
Rosemary

[Didier]

A few years ago I was trying to think of the term used for these 'interludes' and it's still driving me crazy because I feel there was another name used to describe them out here and I can't remember it. I've thought of 'filler', 'travelog? (was that a real term?)' and lots of other words from the early days of TV but none of them really hit the spot in my memory.

Hi Rosemary

"Travelogue" was a name used for the first Cinerama films, which were not story telling movies, but some kind of documentaries showings scenes around the world in a particularly spectacular way at a time when travelling far wasn't as easy as it is now.
You are probabaly too young to know what Cinerama was, so have a look here to know what it was : http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/wingcr1.htm

Didier

[Rosemary]

Hi Didier
Thanks very much. That's a fascinating website and I'm very pleased to know I didn't imagine the name 'Travelogue' although it's not the type of word I would have invented myself. I'm still convinced there is another name for 'interludes'. For some reason I keep associating this missing word with 'test patterns' although I know what test patterns are. Incidentally my Dad built our first TV when I was about 1 or 2 years old and my grandfather built one later too. This is why I've always been confused about 'horizontal' and 'vertical' because when the horizontal hold went it showed vertical lines. (I do really know the difference but sometimes have to think about it.)
Best wishes
Rosemary

[Didier]

I'm still convinced there is another name for 'interludes'.

Yet we used the same name in France !

Didier

[Paulps]

I'm still convinced there is another name for 'interludes'.
Best wishes
Rosemary

On commercial TV, they are called "Adverts", (and some are better than the programmes they interrupt)

[JimN]

I'm still convinced there is another name for 'interludes'.

Yet we used the same name in France !
Didier

That doesn't surprise me, Didier. "interlude" is a word constructed from Latin components, and although English isn't a Latin/Romance language like French, Spanish, Italian or Romanian, we have lots of Latin words in the language (many of those arriving via Norman French*). A you know, many words are either identical or extremely similar in French and English.

JN

[* Poor old Norman. He gets the blame for a lot of things.]