[James2001]

Incidently here's a clip of the room it was in and the noddy camera... so called presumably because it nodded!

As long as you don't use the "NODD" acronym that someone on the blue place invented, and somehow spread throught the internet as fact! Took years to get that one debunked and untangled.

[Stooky Bill]

As long as you don't use the "NODD" acronym that someone on the blue place invented, and somehow spread throught the internet as fact! Took years to get that one debunked and untangled.

Indeed hence I deliberately spelt it 'Noddy' without capitalising it.

[Steve in Pudsey]

In fairness I think TV Ark used the NODD rubbish long before the blue place existed.

My thought was that this could be the colour synthesiser (the "Cox box") being tweaked on air for some reason?

[Bluecortina]

Was the globe kept running 24/7 or was it turned off during closedown/programmes?

It was a long time ago, my wife who used to be a Pres Op in BBC presentation recalls that the lights on the model were switched on and off as and when it was going to be used.

I wonder if this rather odd sequence was mimicking something in the titles of the next programme? Not a programme I ever watched so I cannot answer my own question.

[Steve in Pudsey]

That makes sense, we see the headlights on the camera switching on and off as it moves, it seems quite reasonable to expect the same logic to be able to turn the model (motion and lights) on and off as required. I think Noddy was left parked on a temporary fault caption a lot of the time so it would not have been permanently running

[James2001]

Weren't there lots of extra "islands" on the globe caused by paint peeling because of the heat of the bulb? Imagine what it would get like if it was left on all the time.

[IndigoTucker]

Something rings a bell, there’s a Tomorrows world clip from around the same time with Kieran Prendeville? where he has a DVE BBC1 globe he is playing with in the studio and controlling it with a joystick. IIRC it’s the same shade of flat yellow as this.

[Stuart]

Something rings a bell, there’s a Tomorrows world clip from around the same time with Kieran Prendeville? where he has a DVE BBC1 globe he is playing with in the studio and controlling it with a joystick. IIRC it’s the same shade of flat yellow as this.

Peter Macann was the presenter. As if by magic, here is the clip.

www.youtube.com 

[Stooky Bill]

Talking about the BBC 1 mirror globe, here's an interview with the man who designed it, who explains why it looks like it does:

www.ravensbourne.ac.uk 

Sid Sutton | Ravensbourne University London
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