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Some of the earliest appearances - infact, quite possibly the first night - of the Central cake making up the bulk of this compilation from August - September 1985.

"The One to Watch!"

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Looks like the first day of the Cake being used as an ident but not the first day the Cake was being used, there is clips for that week of 26th - 30th were the cake appears in the promos. talk about confusing.

Does anyone know if Central's cake idents were all produced in-house, or did they outsource any of the work?

I'm thinking that only three years prior to this, Channel 4's flying blocks had to be rendered in America due to lack of suitable facilities over here. Admittedly, those early cake idents did look a bit more basic and less polished than C4's blocks, so maybe by then things had advanced a bit over here?

Its believe there were all in house, all 10'000 different piece, that is a lot. Comes from person that use to deal with this but ended up working in ITV duty office.