All of these idents were recorded during the early morning hours of 3rd November 2007, specifically from 1:15am to 5:00am. Hope these timestamps below are useful to some! 0:00 - Beck’s Fusions: The Chemical Brothers Live in Trafalgar Square - 1:15am 3rd November 2007 0:15 - Empire Square - 2:15am 3rd November 2007 0:30 - Dubplate Drama - 2:40am 3rd November 2007 0:46 - The Killers: Video Exclusive - 3:10am 3rd November 2007 0:58 - Goalissimo! - 3:15am 3rd November 2007 1:09 - Trans World Sport - 4:05am 3rd November 2007 1:19 - Triathlon - 5:00am 3rd November 2007
Ident number 1: a fall forms into many pieces which do a 360 before re-emerging into the 4 Ident number 2: a ton of little pieces come together to form a 4 Ident number 3: a 4 collapses as another collapsed 4 follows which emerges into a 4 Ident number 4: a ton of pieces come from every side of the compass to form a 4 Ident number 5: the 4 gets hit by a football which turns it into the coloured flag of Italy Ident number 4: some text from a different language comes down and 2 4s sort of bow to it. Ident number 5: a American Football player has a body which has the coloured blocks of the 4
They should use this ident EVERY november 2nd! In fact I remember this ident from my early youth and when these were shown for C4 at 25 my sis (who's 11) said 'Eh? whats that crap?' I replied with, 'Channel 4's first logo. Better than the crap ones they show now' :P
@JASpiring I think they got the idea off CENTRAL as CENTRAL used blocks for their "Cake" Ident and CENTRAL was way ahead of its times both programming and visual idents
Cool. This was the piunnacle of 1980s computer graphics. I liked how the '4' fragments and then reforms, from one perspective point. But there again I was born in 1990 (and this ident set was aired back then, in rotation).
@JASpiring But was that within the actual titles rather than the ident? Not 'nit pickin' because the fact remains that Channel 4 were the most inventive with idents whilst they used the blocks.
The press lampooned it during its initial months on air, and used headlines such as Channel Bore, Channel Snore, Channel Swore (for the ripe language it broadcast in shows like Brookside.). The low viewing figures across the channel were used as a stick to beat it with, deliberately missing the point that it was aimed at attracting a minority audience and was achieving the goal very well.
I just saw the most deplorable advert by Channel 4 of new steps , two men joining in a Royal Marriage, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, what about the divine right of national sovereignty chosen by god and blessed by the church let no man be joined to another man in matrimony the book of Deuteronomy , even if it’s a joke it is still wrong suggestion, wrong, wrong, in theory the sovereign marriages must be between man and woman , where are the offspring’s from the Crown supposed to come from,? a card box in the cupboard, be sensible FOR THE LOVE OF ALL WHAT IS GOOD PLESASE, PLESASE STOP, not funny, it, si disturbing, I am born raised and educated here in the Britain and United Kingdom I have the right to speak of it and I speak of it because there needs to be a parameter of reason even in jokes, offensive to my mind and wrong to my religious reasoning, just wrong Royal Wedding for same sex, no sense of religious understanding well offensive.
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Loved the American Football ident. Ahhh, the good old days!!
Agreed, many good memories of the channel 4 idents, this one stands out the most. Bring back the blocks and bring back the Crystal Maze!
They listened to you in 2016 😀
All of these idents were recorded during the early morning hours of 3rd November 2007, specifically from 1:15am to 5:00am. Hope these timestamps below are useful to some!
0:00 - Beck’s Fusions: The Chemical Brothers Live in Trafalgar Square - 1:15am 3rd November 2007
0:15 - Empire Square - 2:15am 3rd November 2007
0:30 - Dubplate Drama - 2:40am 3rd November 2007
0:46 - The Killers: Video Exclusive - 3:10am 3rd November 2007
0:58 - Goalissimo! - 3:15am 3rd November 2007
1:09 - Trans World Sport - 4:05am 3rd November 2007
1:19 - Triathlon - 5:00am 3rd November 2007
I didn't expect Empire Square to be aired during the 25th birthday celebrations...
0:46 my favourite ident
Sounds like there's breaking news.
Ident number 1: a fall forms into many pieces which do a 360 before re-emerging into the 4
Ident number 2: a ton of little pieces come together to form a 4
Ident number 3: a 4 collapses as another collapsed 4 follows which emerges into a 4
Ident number 4: a ton of pieces come from every side of the compass to form a 4
Ident number 5: the 4 gets hit by a football which turns it into the coloured flag of Italy
Ident number 4: some text from a different language comes down and 2 4s sort of bow to it.
Ident number 5: a American Football player has a body which has the coloured blocks of the 4
i always like the channel four ident the best
I liked the one at 0:30. I always think an episode of Brookside is going to start when I hear it.
The first one makes me think of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace starting.
0:15: SPACE SQUAD
Channel 4 PLEASE bring the blocks back
All they did for channel 4’s 35th anniversary (2017) was create a whole new ident set
0:58 - by far my most favourite Channel 4 ident.
0:58
I remember seeing the 1st ident before "Jim Henson's The Hoobs" started in 2008!
They need to bring this back
0:46- always reminds me as the start up tune for the Crystal Maze.
That's even great when it's in widescreen.
They should use this ident EVERY november 2nd!
In fact I remember this ident from my early youth and when these were shown for C4 at 25 my sis (who's 11) said 'Eh? whats that crap?'
I replied with, 'Channel 4's first logo. Better than the crap ones they show now' :P
They did nothing for Channel 4's 30th birthday (2012) Why? :(
I remember the American footie one!!!!
Love the Sumo one! C4 showing its inventiveness with that and other sports, but never the racing strangly!!
C4 Birthday Was 1 Day After Chinese New Year
@JASpiring I think they got the idea off CENTRAL as CENTRAL used blocks for their "Cake" Ident and CENTRAL was way ahead of its times both programming and visual idents
ITV Central stolen!
@@michaelpardo625 Agreed, Central didn't use the blocky cake ident until around 1988.
0:46
Next time Channel 4 show the blocks ident, it will be to mark the passing of David Dundas, composer of Fourscore.
we need a 40th anniversary
My favourite ident is the one at 0:30. Anyone know what that one is please?
+TinyDrew5 It's called 'Space Trip'.
+Daniel Davies Thank you
Cool. This was the piunnacle of 1980s computer graphics. I liked how the '4' fragments and then reforms, from one perspective point. But there again I was born in 1990 (and this ident set was aired back then, in rotation).
@MikeyManchester Alas Central CAKE never come in to effect until 1986, so Central would have gotten the idea of CH4, the idents come in 1982.
Yes, Central had the UFO initially.
The best ident in this is from 0.47. 0.57
0:47 0:57
Bring them back for the 40th Four, no balls.
They did bring it back because of the new 1980 drama and the death of person who created channel 4 ident.
@JASpiring But was that within the actual titles rather than the ident? Not 'nit pickin' because the fact remains that Channel 4 were the most inventive with idents whilst they used the blocks.
First ever time I discovered channel 4
As an American that is
it's like PBS
Does anyone know whether the ident at 0:46 was one of the original idents from 1982, or was it introduced later on?
It was later on. Specially in 1992
@@dwaynepilolo7880 I thought so. It looks too advance, technically speaking, to be from 1982. Thanks for the reply.
Sould of brought them back and kept them
You should put the Hamlet Cigars piss-take on with these!
agfagaevart Love that one.
bring back the colourful 4
...no.
......absolutely yes
Yeah @ 1:20 NFL Blitz! I remember that from my childhood :D
1:20
0:14 Which year was this one used?
The original version (ie the 4:3 version, not this 16:9 version from the 25th anniversary) was used from launch in 1982.
2007, huh?
Thank god they brought back the 1982 ident for the World Alzheimer's Day in 2019.
I don't know what piano sound is it
Doesn't anyone think this logo is perhaps just a teensy weensy bit dated now? *hides*
*WHERE parts of a building...
It was never known as Channel bore. It was the best channel because it was innovative
The press lampooned it during its initial months on air, and used headlines such as Channel Bore, Channel Snore, Channel Swore (for the ripe language it broadcast in shows like Brookside.). The low viewing figures across the channel were used as a stick to beat it with, deliberately missing the point that it was aimed at attracting a minority audience and was achieving the goal very well.
@@97channel My favourite shows were Chips Comic, Alice, and Mini Pops, although they wouldn't even dream of making the latter today...
God that takes me back - NFL when it was good, with Classical Gas over the highlights until it was replaced by Two Tribes.
The NFL is still good.
I have it in high quality, if you really want it.
Wait, there’s a SUMO ident?!
Five Foot two
Channel 4 Italy.
Given these are in 16:9 and the originals in 4:3, I wonder if they cropped the originals or went to the bother of re-creating each.
Looks cropped to me. There was normally more black space above and below the 4.
1:09 I Can't Read The Words
Japanese Sumo wrestling?
Read if you are Japanese
Doesn't look stretched :P
(stretched in 2007!)
there was something about channel 4 in the 1980s, innovative, off the base and radical..gone now..
I just saw the most deplorable advert by Channel 4 of new steps , two men joining in a Royal Marriage, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, what about the divine right of national sovereignty chosen by god and blessed by the church let no man be joined to another man in matrimony the book of Deuteronomy , even if it’s a joke it is still wrong suggestion, wrong, wrong, in theory the sovereign marriages must be between man and woman , where are the offspring’s from the Crown supposed to come from,? a card box in the cupboard, be sensible FOR THE LOVE OF ALL WHAT IS GOOD PLESASE, PLESASE STOP, not funny, it, si disturbing, I am born raised and educated here in the Britain and United Kingdom I have the right to speak of it and I speak of it because there needs to be a parameter of reason even in jokes, offensive to my mind and wrong to my religious reasoning, just wrong Royal Wedding for same sex, no sense of religious understanding well offensive.
Wow, you must be fun at parties.
Huh. Isn't the main teaching of Christianity to love thy neighbour?
You're doing a sub-par job, reassess your life.
+Mexcatl Guerrero Grandma award achieved!
+Mexcatl Guerrero Get over it. Sincerely, The Human Race.
I do wish you would piss off somewhere, Mexcatl Guerrero. Love is love, end of subject.
They did nothing again for Channel 4's 35th birthday (2017) Why? :(
Actually they did, the current ident set (featuring a silver metal giant composed of the C4 blocks) was released for that reason
0:46
0:15