One last dance for BBC One.

BBC One farewells their old idents. (15.9mb) >> To comment and see other videos visit www.idents.tv

Post author By John Beohm
Post date October 9, 2006
9 Comments on One last dance for BBC One.

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The night before BBC One switched over to the new idents they played this montage of the “symbols which have defined BBC One for the last four and half years”. It features 14 of the idents from the Rhythm and Movement series.

I can’t imagine any network in Australia ever farewelling an on screen package like this, but it was very well done.

9 replies on “One last dance for BBC One.”

i’m sad…the dancers; even though that ident lost part of the old BBC identity through out the years…i’ll miss them…I feel sad that ever since the globe and the clock desapeared, the BBC one missed an important part of their identity being the first tv channel in history (i think?)

Well this is funny… I was actually watching the Welsh feed at the time (it was like 1am!) and they appeared to show their own montage of clips of the dancers while the music from the crowd/concert ident was played followed by the music from the skateboard ident. Also the last ident was the roof dancers one in Wales. They played a part that I’ve never seen before, and I’ve seen long versions of that ident!

Also I don’t think that part of the ballet ident has ever been played, partially because it was only ever shown before the funeral of someone or after a terrorist attack.

That is a beautiful homage to an ident package which I consider to be iconic and inspired.

I’ve seen the new idents, and I think they’re hypnotic, some mesmerizing, but often too long. I like the music, though.

And, yes, I’ll miss these snappy ones before the news.

Hey sean, you didn’t taped the welch ver. of the dancers farewell, didn’t you? it would be awsome to have it taped ^^

Sorry Melissa! No tape, in fact I woke up at 1am and suddenly remembered the close-down at 1:15! Anyway, I wouldn’t have a clue how to upload it!

to bad ^^; well, you did saw something amazing anyways and it was nice of you to share it with us…let’s hope tv ark does have it next year when they re-new their page ^^

Moving, I think they only played the ballet dancers when the Queen mum died. Well done BBC for making such rubbish idents look so beautiful. Here’s to the next four years!!!