Tele-snaps: frontcaps
A gallery of ATV frontcaps
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1955 frontcap, taken from the daily start-up animation, featuring the misdrawn ident
1950s ATV frontcap
1950s ATV frontcap, used for ATV Midlands productions shown by Associated-Rediffusion in London
1950s ATV frontcap mentioning just the Midlands contract
Recreation of the ATV frontcap used until 1964
Bespoke ATV Zoom used at the front of the titles to Sunday Night at the London Palladium
1964 ATV London frontcap
1964 ATV Midlands frontcap
1965 redraw of the ATV London frontcap, reducing the size of LONDON
1965 redraw of the ATV Midlands frontcap, reducing the size of MIDLANDS
Recreation of the post-1964 ATV presents frontcap, used on ATV outside broadcasts produced outside of London or the Midlands
First part of the famous Zoom 2 colour ident introduced in 1969
End of the famous Zoom 2 colour ident introduced in 1969
A silent and still caption used before the ATV Zoom 2 on “in the can” ATV productions after ATV had become Central
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