A recreation of the Anglia Television start up (with the full length version of Vaughan Williams' Sea Songs) that I remember as a kid in the late 1970's/early 1980s pre TV-AM. I believe there was a previous version of the colour start up that included included transmitter information on the caption board. The shortened version of the Anglia caption, sans transmitter information, was used when TV-AM started broadcasting in 1983 - see an original off air recording at:

   • 24/02/1984 - ITV - Anglia Startup  

Happy memories of the television channel that had in vision continuity as opposed to the "other side" that had the mesmerising mirror globe spinning away.

Anglia was a small ITV station, but punched above its weight. The theme tunes to Sale Of The Century and About Anglia, by Peter Fenn, are a couple of my favourites of all time.

I hope that the original start ups still exist on videotape held in the East Anglian Film Archive.
The knight on the box is fondly missed, even in this digital age of the early 21st century.

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