![]() It was also used by Rhodesia Television (RTV) during British colonial times (varying between Northern and Southern Rhodesia) following the playing of " God Save the Queen" at closedown. The Indian head was also used by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canada in conjunction with its own monochrome test pattern, following the Canadian national anthem sign-off in the evening, and during its final years in the late-1970s and early-1980s it was shown before sign-on in the morning, after the showing of the SMPTE color bars. The Indian-head test pattern became familiar to the large baby boom TV audiences in America from 1947 onwards it would often follow the formal television station sign-off after the United States national anthem. ![]() Swedish botanist and radio and TV personality Nils Dahlbeck ( sv 1911–1998) posing in front of the Indian-head test pattern (on his left) and the Chalmers University of Technology experimental TV station test card (on his right) in 1957.
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