[Spencer]

For me - Central's 1982 package; used from their opening was great.
I loved the Film Animated globe and purpose composed music.

The 1985 re-brand moved it all with the times; though I wan't set on the library music to accompany it.

The orignal 1982 Central globe ident was rather bland. It ended with simply a shadowed sphere.

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They didn't really introduce any colour until later that year, and later to the 'cake'.

I always thought it was odd that the endcaps had the coloured globe from day one but, as you say, the ident just had the shadow.

I guess it was probably too difficult technically for a filmed model to have the rainbow colours included.

Visually though, the original ident was rather more interesting than the subsequent computer generated globe on which the colours just slowly faded on.