Is that an Indian Chief on that notice?
Aaaah,the old test pattern. Memories of the 1950s.
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Cheech: What are you doing, man?
Man: I'm watching TV, man.
Cheech: Watching TV? Well, what are you watching?
Man: I'm watching a movie about Indians, but it's really boring, man.
Cheech: A movie about Indians?? Hey man, that's not a movie about Indians, man! It's a test pattern!
Man: A test pattern? Far out, man!
Fwiw, when I was a child up in Northeast Texas, KSLA TV’s (the ONLY TV station that we could get all of the time in Camp County W/O a HUGE antenna on a TALL tower) owner found out that people were actually WATCHING the test pattern between Midnight & 0600, he started running beautiful slides of Louisiana wildlife & other scenic “slides”.
KSLA got LOTS of “fan mail” about those wildlife scenes from “viewers”, until the station finally went 24/365.
(SADLY, I must tell everyone that the KSLA test pattern was often BETTER than a LOT of the network TV programs in those long ago years.)
Yours, TMN78247