Film collector and curator Roloff de Jeu has tapped into the national audiovisual archive of Beeld & Geluid, researching the early craftsmanship of animation for Dutch television, focussing on the artwork done to announce programmes and broadcasters with their titles and station calls. After seeing hours and hours of Seventies and Eighties TV shows, he has compiled those sequences that have mesmerized and inspired him to recreate some of the animation and compositing techniques used. With help from Mathijs Stegink these methods will be simulated live using analog video cameras and mixers along with input from the audience and of course some magic DIY smoke & mirrors. Leaders that were filmed on 16mm will be shown digitally in a never seen before restored quality, others from an analog broadcast mastertape created for this show - as close to the originals as possible.
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High contrast photo-based prints combined with paper cut-outs create this fast paced replacement animation split screen sequence with some inventive fitting logo animation at the end. Other TROS Station IDs and bumpers from this year used similar cut-out splitscreen techniques.
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Very playful and inventive leaders and bumpers were created for a documentary about match sticks ("Lucifers") using a mix of live action recording (sometimes played back in reverse), clever dissolves and stop-motion animation.
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Silk screen printing and rostrum camera moves along with film printing techniques are the ingredients for this simple yet elegant AVRO sports programme leader.
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In all its honest plainness, this leader combines what appear to be cut-out, paint and screen printing techniques with exact plotted movements on the rostrum camera tabletop combined with multiple exposures of the film. Looks can be deceiving, this is a piece of painstaking, nerve-wracking, patience-defying art.
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Leader in three sections using cut-out animation to reveal the program's title.
Another very basic animated leader for a TV course on math & measurements. Taking a closer look shows this origami style measuring tape written title sequence was animated very precisely with great care.
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The NOS logo (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, a Dutch broadcaster responsable for the news, sports and big events) was designed by Johan Volkerijk and in use for 36 years. A mesmerizing Station Call with a fitting electronic soundtrack that makes one think "how did they animate this?"
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Simple yet very effective, this 3D title extraction animated in 2D in what seems to be a cut-out technique. It makes one think "how did they animate this?". Bumpers with dates in the short running TV programme used the same typography but where not animated.
In this season's animated leader intricate cut-out techniques were used to create split screen effects and a three-dimensional rotating cow, not to mention the sync talking red hot lips!
Painstaking rotoscoped mattes isolate the goalkeeper to set him against a playful graphic background. Bumpers reveal the number of the "Goal of the Month".
Pencils, watercolor, paint and paper cut-outs are used to rotoscope clips from sportgames in a loose yet effective manner. If you pay close attention you may recognise famous sport players from the Seventies!
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Some examples of many leaders and bumpers created in this very neat, graphic style painted animation based on photos taken by the producer, involving intricate camera movements and painted simulated matte wipe transitions.
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Rotoscoped and silhouetted feet wearing different footwear are the stars in this leader for a home & gardening DIY programme.
The always stunning slit-scan animation (motion control) technique known from famous Title Sequences like 2001, SUPERMAN, STAR TREK, "Dr. Who" and others was used here to create transitions between a Lion and the TROS logo as an Ident of Station Call. Many combinations were created and broadcast, this one however never made it to the Master Control Room as it was labeled "Rejected"!
An early animated leader in the lineup of Dutch TV title sequences, and a very inventive one for this programme that looks into the future, covering topics ranging from healthcare to space travel. With color broadcast having just commenced and the majority of programs still produced in B&W, the double exposure technique was effective enough to create these superimposed titles.
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A unique look into some of the original footage filmed on a miniature stage and outdoor in Paris and Amsterdam plus the final result where these shots are composited into the station call outro that would conclude an evening of TROS (Televisie & Radio Omroep Stichting) programming.
A spinning globe and contra-spinning superimposed titles with a zoom synced to the tune are all that's needed to create this effective leader.
From the start of the first season the director and designers for TopPop used mixed media combining film and video compositing techniques and animation with intricate set designs and scale models to create unique registrations of performances (early music videos). This leader shows a combination of bluescreen and miniatures in a multi-layered videomixed extravaganza that was used often in the show
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In this leader 2D cell animation is combined with blue(screen) to be keyed in with clips from previous seasons of the show.
This leader uses computer (aided) animation techniques in combination with hand painted artwork to create a new fresh modern look for the show. The computer animation technique used (with machines like the ADO, Bosch, Cubicomp, Antics, Scanimate or Quantel Paintbox) marks a new era and the end of analog animated leaders recorded onto 16mm film.
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Fake it 'til you make it: when computer animation was still in it's infancy and was totally unaffordable for the animators creating leaders for Dutch TV, one could at least make it look like it came out of a computer - and perhaps computer drawings aided the analog hand-crafted animation of this leader.
This intro and outro uses animated mattes to key in multiple video channels which must have been quite a puzzle to the makers. The outro also has a very special cameo.
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