RTM Color Presentation

From the Audiovisual Identity Database, the motion graphics museum


Open (December 28, 1978-unknown retirement year)

Visuals: On a gray background, dependent shapes in different colors pop up in a dependent technique and fill up the background. Four different variants are known to have existed:

  • Multiple differently-colored rounded rectangles pop up on the top left and the bottom right sides of the screen and fill up most of it. Duplicates of the rectangles pop up in the opposite direction, and blue rectangles fill up almost all of the remaining spaces, only leaving behind a dot at the center of the screen. The screen then zooms in towards the dot.
  • Triangles appear in clockwise positions in red, orange, lime, yellow, turquoise, teal, and dark blue, filling up the right half of the screen. The remaining triangles appear in the same color pattern to fill up the left half of the screen.
  • Seven circles appear at the center of the screen and grow, with each of them getting into a bigger size as they stop growing. The color pattern of the appearance of the circles, ranging from smallest to biggest, are indigo, turquoise, sky blue, teal, forest green, mint green, and turquoise. The camera then zooms in towards the smallest of the circles.
  • The final product of the second ident described is first shown. The background then zooms out until it's no longer visible, leaving behind a gray background.

Technique: Cel animation.

Audio: A rapid ten-note synth tune.

Availability: These idents appeared before the start of programmes on RTM1 and RTM2 to indicate that the programme is in color.

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