FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: The TV Room
The 6.15am BBC Two junction.
Video content
[00:00:00] TELETEXT IN-VISION: BBC Two starts the day with Pages from Ceefax and some festive music.
Although we’ve only got a few minutes of the teletext pages on tape, Pages from Ceefax is likely to have been broadcast for 15 – 20 minutes.
Includes at [00:03:25] GRAPHIC: a slide version of the Ceefax menu brings this in-vision broadcast to a close.
[00:03:35] IDENT: the BBC Two Christmas ident welcomes us to Christmas Day. The announcer wishes us a Happy Christmas.
[00:03:47] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for Arena on BBC Two.
A two-part documentary. Part one airs tonight at 9.05pm and part two at 9pm on Boxing Day.
[00:04:27] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: a festive BBC Two slide – for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Continuing the John Huston season and the first of two films today starring Humphrey Bogart. The classic western airs at 8am on BBC Two.
[00:04:38] IDENT: the Christmas BBC Two ident is used to link into The Great Lie.
[00:04:52] PROGRAMME: the opening sequence of the film, The Great Lie.
Acknowledgements
PICTURED: BBC Two ident. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
The date is actually the 25th December 1998, not 1999.
Thank you for pointing out the typo. The date displayed on the page has now been corrected. Though the categorisation of this presentation package was attributed to the correct year.