ITV Southern | start-up | 1964-1968

Music © SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1958 ITA "Picasso" tuning signal © INDEPENDENT TELEVISION AUTHORITY 1960 Scenes of south of England film © SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION 1960s. The strings of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra wail out Richard Addinsell's tune especially composed for Southern Television, "Southern Rhapsody" with Brian Nissen briefly interjecting over the ITA's region-specific variant of the Picasso tuning signal before finally fading to nostalgic views of different scenes and landmarks of the South and South-East of England. Enjoy and watch my favourite ITV startup sequence with my favourite ITV startup tune. The Picasso was recreated as closely as possible as I can get, and the whole thing was quickly put together in one evening on Windows Movie Maker (apart from the fading you really wouldn't be able to tell!) All credit goes to KesckeBak (rather, his blog) and Thebluechickens for the visual reference and audio and video material.