Memories from the corners of my mind.

[postman]

I have just watched two episodes of Dad's Army.Scene set in a picture house.Film finishes and the National anthem begins.Everyone stands up then trys to leave.Well i can remember standing at the end of films in my younger days.But i cannot remember when that practise stopped.Anyone remember.

 

[Archie_tect]

I remember waking up in the night to the high pitched whistle on the telly after the white dot had disappeared straight after the National Anthem.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I remember the rush to get out of the cinema as the closing credits went up in order to beat standing for the National Anthem. I believe it stopped sometime in the seventies (the playing of the anthem, not the rush to leave).

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I remember watching a movie where the film broke, and they had this great big organ (oooh errr!) pop up out of the stage.
Think it was the Wurlitzer in the Scala, Corporation Street, Rotherham (correct me if I'm wrong).

Standing for the anthem was gone by the time I was going as a kid.

 

[Brains]

I'll go for it stopping in 1988'ish

I'm sure that going out with the girlfriend (now wife) it was still happening (just)

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I'm sure they still played the anthem at the cinema around the late 80s, early 90s. In saying that though, I was living in Germany at the time so it may have been a Forces thing.

 

[Bluenite]

Jeez you lot are old.

 

[vernon]

I remember waking up in the night to the high pitched whistle on the telly after the white dot had disappeared straight after the National Anthem.

As students we used to video the dot to give us something to watch before the advent of 24hr TV.

 

[asterix]

As students we used to video the dot to give us something to watch before the advent of 24hr TV.

That's the strangest thing I have heard all day.

 

[vernon]

That's the strangest thing I have heard all day.

It's a physical impossibility - you can only video record a broadcast dot.

It isn't original. I knicked it from "The Young Ones" but I could see where the scriptwriters were coming from.

As an undergraduate there was nothing after the late night film and national anthem and white dot. There were times when we'd have happily watched the dot and listed to the whine because we were incapable of movement and were grateful for any form of stimulus reception that confirmed we were still alive.

As young parents, TV sourced stimulation during the night shift had evolved to "The Hit Man and Her" with Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachan followed by the eighty or ninety page carousel of Teletext/Ceefax Jobfinder. Both of which provided, by a very small margin, more stimulation than the white dot and whine. I don't recall every hearing the National Anthem at any stage through the night.

So I reckon sometime before 1988 was when the anthem went walkabout.

 

[tyred]

Dots and test cards are arguably more interesting than watching an episode of Eastenders.

 

[vernon]

Watching an episode of Eastenders is more interesting than watching televised golf.

 

[perplexed]

They still play the National Anthem at midnight on Radio 4.

I prefer the shipping forecast meself...

 

[Vapin' Joe]

They still play the National Anthem at midnight on Radio 4.

I prefer the shipping forecast meself...

Only because you think that "Dogger" means something else...

 

[perplexed]

Well, that and I wonder what a German Byte is...