Getting up early on Saturday mornings, turning on the tv to watch cartoons and would be greeted by this. Waiting to hear the National Anthem knowing the broadcast day was about to start.

Tommy Orange's Pulitzer-prize-nominated first novel, "There There," features this test pattern in the Prologue, weaving it into a metaphor about Indian (Native) history. The novel is set in modern-day Oakland, CA, and is a nothing less than a masterpiece.

@NaomiBrightside

3 жыл бұрын

YES! It truly is a masterpiece.

Many years ago as a kid my bedroom was right off the living room and I knew my dad fell asleep watching tv when I heard the tone and Indian head test pattern. I had to get up and get him to bed lol . Sure is better then all night infomercials today

was kind of a comforting thing too if you had already fallen asleep in front of the tv and it woke you up and coaxed you to your comfortable bed instead of in the terrible position you were sleeping in fully clothed.

Would watch again! Can't wait for the Sequel

Who could thumb down this classic bit of TV history LOL.

@antihumor2231

5 жыл бұрын

@Unsesquipedalian no u

@doncorleone1553

3 жыл бұрын

@Jeffery Amherst ?

Tommy Orange, There There

@ImInquiz

3 жыл бұрын

that brought me here

I always loved that show.

This has been viewed 64,000 times. lol

59:50 Just love happy endings

There's something comforting about this. i woke up to this so many times a a child.

“This concludes our broadcasting day...”

When you survive a nuclear attack and turn on the T.V to see if there's a broadcast of some sort.

This was a regular test pattern when I was young. Apparently, you are not. TV was not always 24 hours.

Great for when I want to be annoying. I remember these from days long gone.

Beats watching testimony on Capitol Hill

@rockyracoon3233

4 жыл бұрын

I agree!

Decided to search this up because it was mentioned in the novel we were reading (There There by Tommy Orange) Very interesting to say the least It has that tinge of eerines that these kinds of sign off visuals have to them..

After the test pattern, you would get white snow, in other words, no signal at all. And then in the early morning, the test pattern would appear, usually followed by some type of sign on message with the American flag.

@petelinster7093

4 жыл бұрын

And a prayer.

This would make a great mini series

When you're wide awake one hour of this would be like a Chinese water torture. Hard to imagine Americans used to fall asleep in their easy chair at 1 AM with this blaring in the background.

There are reasons why it was drawn specifically like this. See the Wikipedia page.

Don’t go into the light Carolann!!

I would fit this 1 hour test pattern on a 60 min tape Thank you AUX imput

aaahhh memories from waaayyyy back then

Only Earl Sinclair would think a Test Pattern is a great program. You get up to go to the bathroom, you come back, and nothing's changed.

How many MHz is this pitch? and why is this so soothing?

@spencerhunter1596

2 жыл бұрын

Someone mentioned 445Hz, but it sounds closer to 440Hz to me--concert A on the treble staff.

@danepcarver4951

2 жыл бұрын

@@spencerhunter1596 Calbrated ear? Or do you have tuning forks?

Beats the last 20 seasons of the Simpsons.

best part 15:60

What is the origins of the indian head test pattern

The Original ambient sleep model, built for non-REM dead of night dozing

We need to bring this back!

@Gamefan113

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. I actually miss TV channel sign offs and ons. The reason why I bring this up is because that's when you would usually see test patterns. The only thing I'm confused about is why would some TV channels display a black and white test pattern istead of the usual color pattern? I'm talking about the 70's, 80's, 90's and the 2000's.

@rockyracoon3233

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gamefan113 . Good point!

@sethflix

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gamefan113 It's because they never made color test patterns like this. They used the color bars. You remember those... Right? kzread.info/dash/bejne/i5urqsWEdseagJc.html

@LinkRocks

2 жыл бұрын

No we don't.

@rockyracoon3233

2 жыл бұрын

@@LinkRocks . Why not?

Still love that show.

"The Indian head in the jar, the Indian head on a spike were like flags flown, to be seen, cast broadly. Just like the Indian Head test pattern was broadcast to sleeping Americans as we set sail from our living rooms, over the ocean blue-green glowing airwaves, to the shores, the screens of the New World." - Tommy Orange, There There

I remember those days!😂

i like to go to sleep to this, imagining im too lazy to get up and turn the ol tube off

I remember this!

it has a familiar ring to it.

We should go back to these simpler times. Immediately before and Immediately after the National Anthem would play. America was a stronger, less divided place!

@yawn4983

Жыл бұрын

Yeah because know one knew the truth behind this image until now

@wincubs1

Жыл бұрын

@@yawn4983 no one knew

Generally, the TV stations would sign off and give their last goodbye and a tribute to a flag and then go to Indian card. Some signed on and signed off earlier and later than others. My father was a TV and radio repairman in the 1950s. I know what I am talking about.

@yoyossarian9468

5 жыл бұрын

No u dont

@cardcountrymusic9981

5 жыл бұрын

awesome awesome

@antihumor2231

5 жыл бұрын

@@yoyossarian9468 YES HE DOES!!!!

@yoyossarian9468

5 жыл бұрын

@@antihumor2231 no he doesn

@Seals-ky6dj

4 жыл бұрын

@@yoyossarian9468 how bout you watch the movie poltergeist jackass they show in the beginning of the original movie the tv sign off kzread.info/dash/bejne/rKZhvNeYY93fdNI.html

How many time can you able to endure this? :P

please standby

Is this a Netflix original

my favorite part was 34:50

Better than watching "The Simpsons"!

@hwjebwlsndqgajsbsksnd

5 жыл бұрын

No, it's not.

@dudedude315

3 жыл бұрын

You have never watched a single episode of The Simpsons, have you?

@EverythingRebel

2 жыл бұрын

@@dudedude315 lol

This test pattern is brought to you by TikTok and Chime! (pre-roll ads) 😁

rede tupi's be like

Grammy

Before SMPTE it was the indian head.

It picks up at about the 35 minute mark

@artemissss2529

4 жыл бұрын

It's better at the 48 minute mark.

Indian head test pattern On KCOP TV Channel 13 Los Angeles

Rede Tupi vibes

Does anyone know the tone frequency?

Paul Revere & the raider best 🎵 video

At the 35:00 mark, it beeps!

Tv Tupi 1950

I liked the part where it went beep

Hope nobody gets offended.

When you are on vc with your Ukrainian friend:

This is one boring indian movie.

@rockyracoon3233

4 жыл бұрын

@Jeffery Amherst . Interesting fact!

It’s a movie about Indians, but it’s really boring, man.

@richartrod

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, man, that ain't a movie, man. That's a TEST PATTERN, man! 😆

@rockyracoon3233

3 жыл бұрын

@@richartrod . Far out man.

@richartrod

2 жыл бұрын

I hear Disney Plus has bought the rights to a reboot. 🤣

Mi Con como profesora

Huh. didn't know there was a 16:9 version of this. My project with an original 2F21 tube made in 1939 only produces a 4:3 pattern. See: My project called, The Chief.

Cold War

What was the purpose of these?

@haj811

5 жыл бұрын

in the 50s you could adjust the tube tv, center it, narow it, and get the best viewing. no hd then.

@haj811

5 жыл бұрын

tv usually went off the air at 10, or 11 pm only 3 channels, and no 24/7

@SFVnative

5 жыл бұрын

@@haj811 --Only three channels? 😕 I did know they used to go off the air but I thought it was like 2 a.m.

@Treborpyn

5 жыл бұрын

The test pattern was a signal sent shortly before the TV station would start its broadcast day. Around 5AM. The flag with the national anthem played at the end of the broadcast day. Between 12-2AM in the 70’s.

@bashildy

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Nyp also having this saved on KZread has helped me do some quick sound tests. Not the professional way of doing it but gave me continuous sound when moving things around

Wrong aspect ratio.

That's the most boring Western ever.

WHY 445Hz???

@richartrod

4 жыл бұрын

445 Hz is easier on the ears than 1000 Hz, which is almost like a screech.

the picture of indian above is used to test brightness

@LinkRocks

2 жыл бұрын

Native American*. Indians are from India.

@XMIR10C

Жыл бұрын

@@LinkRocks No they are not. They came from Mongolia the the bridge. Some came from indonesia it appers/