Eurovision 1958: *IMPORTANT* - the reason it still exists! | Super-cut with animated scoreboard скачать в хорошем качестве

Eurovision 1958: *IMPORTANT* - the reason it still exists! | Super-cut with animated scoreboard

An edited down version of the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 in Hilversum with a scoreboard using today’s technology. This all started as a lockdown project! This edit will give a flavour of the evening (Wednesday 12 March) with Dutch commentary. Yes, the contest moves to a Wednesday evening and it seems to have tidied itself up on the way to Hilversum. Although television was still considered a ‘challenging new technology’, the Dutch successfully tidied up the visual presentation of the show. Unlike 1957, it didn’t feel like television cameras were clandestinely recording a radio programme. Like 1957, we have plenty of returnees, Corry Brokken returns to try and retain the crown and ‘Champion 1’, Lys Assia returns for the third time to try and take it back. And she very nearly does it. The 133 words above is enough before mentioning Domenico Modugno and ‘Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu’. The impact of this song cannot be underestimated – it almost certainly kept the show going and growing. The juries of course, saw it differently. Some did not see it at all to begin with(!), but after two performances, only 13 out 90 jurors felt strong enough to vote for it. Luckily, the jurors at the Grammy’s in Los Angeles saw differently, and the song won the inaugural award there. Domenico would enjoy chart success all over Europe, and in America. The song would go on to be covered by loads of artists, although I think Dean Martin’s cover is probably the once you’ve heard. This success quietened fears that the Contest wasn’t producing chart hits. Without that, television executives would start asking why the EBU was bothering. The juries ended up giving the prize to one of the oldest winners ever – the delightfully camp André Claveau. In an exquisite example of what Wogan would call ‘coming up on the rails’, watch Switzerland close in on the French…it’s quite a watch! Although Assia’s ‘Giorgio’ was a strong way to end the show, such a ‘novelty’ song winning may have left the EBU reaching for the vino at the café. The best result would have been an Italian win, but failing that, a French gentle ballad winning felt like the sort of compromise that any European political summit would be proud of. Domenico’s hit in the UK meant the BBC saw value in returning in 1959. Although there was no English entrant here, the level of English is higher than in 57. The production choice to not have in-person presentation at the start meant the commentators had to do all the heavy lifting. Only the French speaking countries delivered their points in French, the rest in English (avoiding the polyglot mess seen previously). I think this may be the start of the ‘working languages’ rule. The show kept to it’s 75-minute running time, although the BBC did two things – edited it down to 60 minutes and aired it on Sunday (3:15pm). DESIGN AND THE BOARD I love the clarity of the 1958 board, and at first glance I thought: they’re using Gill Sans all lower case! At close inspection, it’s not Gill. We’re in a world of paint or lettering applied by sticky film – the typeface certainly uses some shapes from that typeface but there are some flourishes that detract from it (the 5 for example). What we do have is an offset rectangular look going on when you see the whole board. Admittedly you never really see the entire board during the programme, it’s very tightly zoomed – so much so that many television sets would cut off large parts of the text. A quick look on Wiki and you’ll see why I’ve added this design more prominently – the NTS instead went for clarity of shot, which I can entirely understand. My design was more about ‘formica’ and 1950s utility with a nod to ‘Space Age’ design than anything else. The real board also has, for the first time, a notification of points per round awarded - something that would still allude RTÉ in the 1990s! It did take a while to reset though, but we’ve moved on from black card being rolled around…there’s independent numbers denoting 10s and single figures. I would have liked to have seen what it looks like from behind! More on the song captions in the comments below. TRANSFER NEWS (source: Wiki) OUT: The UK, as discussed. IN: Sweden – a delightful song introducing the traditional dress trick! Total = Stays at 10. INTERVAL ACT Two! The Metropole Orkest play a nice range of genres. Not sure the mid-competition act will stick around! CREDITS @ESC Stuff for the high quality upload! Flags: countryflags.com All Copyright belongs to NOS. 00:00 Intro 00:55 Song super-cut 06:28 Interval 1 08:00 Song super-cut 15:29 Interval 2, voting intro 16:44 The reorder board 58 31:27 Recap, data & reprise