Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than...
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Test Card B was an early BBC television test card. It was very similar to Test Card A and also only broadcast as engineering tests. The original card...
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A test card, also known as a test pattern or start-up/closedown test, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is...
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Carole Hersee (redirect from Test Card Girl)
known for appearing in the centrepiece of the United Kingdom television Test Card F (and latterly J, W, and X), which aired on BBC Television from 1967 to...
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2001) was a BBC engineer, who is most famous for his development of Test Card F. This design came about after Hersee was asked to intervene by the committee...
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Philips circle pattern (category Test cards)
become one of the most commonly used test cards, with only the SMPTE and EBU colour bars as well as the BBC's Test Card F coming close to its usage. The Philips...
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insane, such as his frequent and unexpected encounters with the Test Card Girl from Test Card F, who speaks directly to him. Annie Cartwright partially persuades...
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apart from Carole Hersee, the young girl who appeared on the BBC's Test Card F. Whiteley was born on 28 December 1943 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire...
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ETP-1 (category Test cards)
different ITV regions: Test Card F, Test Card G and full screen height EBU colour bars. After ITV went 24 hours in 1988, the card ceased to be seen on the...
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used by the BBC in one of its trade-test transmission tapes in the late 1970s, most often accompanied by Test Card F in vision. The song is also often played...
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Adventures of Little Carp) Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F Bubbles, an oriole from the Angry Birds franchise Bubbles, a yellow tang...
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Test Card Girl (Rafaella Hutchinson in series one and Harriet Rogers in series two) is a young girl resembling the girl (Carole Hersee) in Test Card F...
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The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation...
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SMPTE color bars (category Test cards)
color bars. Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion EBU color bars China Girl (filmmaking) Indian-head test pattern Test Card F 2-pop Philips PM5544...
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Retrieved 10 August 2024. Complete BBC Two sign off routine in April 1997, including Weatherview presented by Michael Fish, clock ident and Test Card F...
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TVARK. 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2025. BBC testcards (including clock idents) BBC Two sign off routine (including clock ident and Test Card F), 1997...
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Behaving Likely Ladly (The Likely Lads and Men Behaving Badly) Keep Still (Test Card F broadcast for 8 hours per day) Open University Pot Black with competitors...
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apparently ran via Emley Moor, where the IBA could insert test transmissions, such as Test Card "F" Both the BBC and ITV 405-line VHF TV services from Belmont...
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EBU colour bars (category Test cards)
The EBU colour bars are a television test card used to check if a video signal has been altered by recording or transmission, and what adjustments must...
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spelt Sendeschluß with an eszett, meaning "shutdown"), shown prior to the test card (as opposed to before the signal being cut) to tell the viewer to switch...
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test card shown late at night on Channel M, where he and Little Frank ramble on and sing songs whilst framed in a parody of the classic Test Card F....
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Independent Broadcasting Authority begins broadcasting its own test card on ITV instead of Test Card F. 1980 28 December – The IBA announces the new contractors...
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appearing as an eight-year-old child in the central image of the television Test Card F, was born in Redhill in 1958. David Hewlett, actor, writer, director...
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1925 and 1933. Among the discs in Dr. McLean's collection are a number of test recordings made by television pioneer John Logie Baird himself. One disc...
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of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and other...
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Would You Do That (Racing) - 1986 Chevy Chevette Lemons South Fall 2022: Test Card F - 1980 Rover SD1 Yokohama Button Turrible 2022: Ran When Parked Racing...
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A credit card (or charge card) is a payment card, usually issued by a bank, allowing its users to purchase goods or services, or withdraw cash, on credit...
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of prospective employees for a range of occupations. The test was created in 1939 by Eldon F. Wonderlic. It consists of 50 multiple choice questions to...
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idents History of ITV television idents Logo of the BBC List of BBC test cards Test Card F A Flash recreation of the 1985 BBC1 clock can be seen at the BBC's...
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Independent Broadcasting Authority begins broadcasting its own test card on ITV instead of Test Card F. 3 January The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979) The Strange...
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