• Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than...
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  • Test Card B was an early BBC television test card. It was very similar to Test Card A and also only broadcast as engineering tests. The original card...
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    A test card, also known as a test pattern or start-up/closedown test, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is...
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  • Carole Hersee (redirect from Test Card Girl)
    known for appearing in the centrepiece of the United Kingdom television Test Card F (and latterly J, W, and X), which aired on BBC Television from 1967 to...
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  • 2001) was a BBC engineer, who is most famous for his development of Test Card F. This design came about after Hersee was asked to intervene by the committee...
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    Philips circle pattern (category Test cards)
    become one of the most commonly used test cards, with only the SMPTE and EBU colour bars as well as the BBC's Test Card F coming close to its usage. The Philips...
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  • apart from Carole Hersee, the young girl who appeared on the BBC's Test Card F. John Richard Whiteley was born on 28 December 1943 in Bradford, West...
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    The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation...
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  • insane, such as his frequent and unexpected encounters with the Test Card Girl from Test Card F, who speaks directly to him. Annie Cartwright partially persuades...
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    Test Card F led his team to IOE Victory, the highest honor in 24 Hours of LeMons Endurance Racing Series. In 2024 David Coxon, Captain of Test Card F...
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  • Adventures of Little Carp) Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F Bubbles, an oriole from the Angry Birds franchise Bubbles, a yellow tang...
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    ETP-1 (category Test cards)
    different ITV regions: Test Card F, Test Card G and full screen height EBU colour bars. After ITV went 24 hours in 1988, the card ceased to be seen on the...
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  • used by the BBC in one of its trade-test transmission tapes in the late 1970s, most often accompanied by Test Card F in vision. The song is also often played...
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  • Test Card Girl (Rafaella Hutchinson in series one and Harriet Rogers in series two) is a young girl resembling the girl (Carole Hersee) in Test Card F...
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    A green card, known officially as a permanent resident card, is an identity document which shows that a person has permanent residency in the United States...
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    credit card is a payment card, usually issued by a bank, allowing its users to purchase goods or services, or withdraw cash, on credit. Using the card thus...
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  • as a quick IQ test. Created in 1936 by E. F. Wonderlic, the Wonderlic Personnel Test was the first short-form cognitive abilities test. It was developed...
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    test card shown late at night on Channel M, where he and Little Frank ramble on and sing songs whilst framed in a parody of the classic Test Card F....
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  • News (Late Night Line-Up) The Forsyte Saga The Likely Lads Keep Still (Test Card F broadcast for 8 hours per day) Pot Black with competitors attempting...
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    appearing as an eight-year-old child in the central image of the television Test Card F, was born in Redhill in 1958. David Hewlett, actor, writer, director...
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    1925 and 1933. Among the discs in Dr. McLean's collection are a number of test recordings made by television pioneer John Logie Baird himself. One disc...
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    SMPTE color bars (category Test cards)
    (filmmaking) Indian-head test pattern Test Card F 2-pop Philips PM5544 EG 1:1990 - SMPTE Engineering Guideline - Alignment Color Bar Test Signal for Television...
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  • spelt Sendeschluß with an eszett, meaning "shutdown"), shown prior to the test card (as opposed to before the signal being cut) to tell the viewer to switch...
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    Suffragettes Supermarine Spitfire Swinging Sixties Tea (cup of) Tea (meal) Test Card F Thunderbirds Tommy Atkins (generic name for a British soldier) Brodie...
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  • Independent Broadcasting Authority begins broadcasting its own test card on ITV instead of Test Card F. 3 January The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979) The Strange...
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  • presence test. The SPT should be used in conjunction with the Green Card Test (the criterion that the individual possessed a valid Green Card at any time...
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  • Dimensional Change Card Sorting Task, the Multiple Classification Card Sorting Task, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task, and the Stroop Test. Functional Magnetic...
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    EBU colour bars (category Test cards)
    The EBU colour bars are a television test card used to check if a video signal has been altered by recording or transmission, and what adjustments must...
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  • Retrieved 10 August 2024. Complete BBC Two sign off routine in April 1997, including Weatherview presented by Michael Fish, clock ident and Test Card F...
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    apparently ran via Emley Moor, where the IBA could insert test transmissions, such as Test Card "F" Both the BBC and ITV 405-line VHF TV services from Belmont...
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