Carole Hersee Test Card F - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

Racalfanatic · 24th Nov 2007, 5:53 pm

Has anyone seen this?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...testcard25.xml

brianc · 24th Nov 2007, 11:27 pm

Hi all
I used to work with George Hersee when at the BBC. He was a very self-effacing guy but had, like many people there, a great depth of knowledge. That was a time when the BBC had an incredible collection of very clever engineers working for them (I am NOT including myself in that group) who instigated or developed many original ideas such as inlay - switching between two video sources using cut-out shapes, Colour Separation Overlay, now known as ChromaKey, the line-store standards converter, framestore standards converter, etc. etc. One engineer (Brian Pethers) even developed the Russian colour system before the Russians did!!
What a difference now! Almost reduced to a program publisher.
I am not trying to minimise the contributions that ITA/ITVA made.
Cheers
Brian

ppppenguin · 24th Nov 2007, 11:49 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by brianc

.....One engineer (Brian Pethers) even developed the Russian colour system before the Russians did!!

I knew Brian quite well. He and I were colleagues at Michael Cox Electronics in the early 1980s. He was frequently very inventive and original. More recently he used to come to BVWS Harpenden meetings. He died about 4 or 5 years ago.

I met George Hersee just once when I was doing a summer holiday job at BBC Designs Department. I remember him showing me some variants of Test Card C. I distinctly remember seeing one with a dark skinned child which was designed for an African country.

brianc · 25th Nov 2007, 11:15 am

In the interview with Carole Hersee, she mentions that she still has the clown (Bubbles) safely tucked up in a box. Its value is, I should imagine, one of those things we will never know!
Brian

Mr Hoover · 25th Nov 2007, 5:42 pm

In Sweden they used a different girl with a doll in the centre of their
old monochrome testcard
http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcar...ld/st1_168.jpg

I remember receiving this via Sporadic E in band I in the early 1970's,
a little later they went over to the Phillips PM5544 electronic pattern with
the ident "TV1" at the top & "SVERIGE" at the bottom

24th Nov 2007, 5:53 pm	#1
Racalfanatic Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK. Posts: 105	Carole Hersee Test Card F Has anyone seen this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...testcard25.xml

24th Nov 2007, 11:27 pm	#2
brianc Rest in Peace Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Burghfield, Reading, Berkshire, UK, Posts: 1,055	Re: Carole Hersee Test Card F Hi all I used to work with George Hersee when at the BBC. He was a very self-effacing guy but had, like many people there, a great depth of knowledge. That was a time when the BBC had an incredible collection of very clever engineers working for them (I am NOT including myself in that group) who instigated or developed many original ideas such as inlay - switching between two video sources using cut-out shapes, Colour Separation Overlay, now known as ChromaKey, the line-store standards converter, framestore standards converter, etc. etc. One engineer (Brian Pethers) even developed the Russian colour system before the Russians did!! What a difference now! Almost reduced to a program publisher. I am not trying to minimise the contributions that ITA/ITVA made. Cheers Brian

25th Nov 2007, 11:15 am	#4
brianc Rest in Peace Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Burghfield, Reading, Berkshire, UK, Posts: 1,055	Re: Carole Hersee Test Card F In the interview with Carole Hersee, she mentions that she still has the clown (Bubbles) safely tucked up in a box. Its value is, I should imagine, one of those things we will never know! Brian

25th Nov 2007, 5:42 pm	#5
Mr Hoover Hexode Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 269	Re: Carole Hersee Test Card F In Sweden they used a different girl with a doll in the centre of their old monochrome testcard http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcar...ld/st1_168.jpg I remember receiving this via Sporadic E in band I in the early 1970's, a little later they went over to the Phillips PM5544 electronic pattern with the ident "TV1" at the top & "SVERIGE" at the bottom