General Presentation/Logistics Questions

I would have thought so. ITN's news titles and graphics were pretty simple until 1987. I think that must have been when they invested in some new computing technology because between 87 and 88 all of ITN's programmes were updated with flashy CGI whizzy graphics.

So the entire background behind AB is a CSO, with a green pallette and a small rectangular image set in? In later eras, which still employed the drop-in frame, the frame was overlaid onto the picture and essentially "virtual", which is why news presenters heads would often disappear behind the frame, if they moved too suddenly or leaned too far in the wrong direction?


Like here, famously:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JKHOOFwkr4

Not necessarily - it looks like it's a flat enough field of colour, and one which doesn't generally occur in skin tones or clothes, therefore possibly suitable for CSO.
I'm no vision mixing expert, though!

Ever wondered what goes on in the gallery during the news? Here's a recording from 1987 of an American local newscast with gallery (control room) audio:



Via RGSJenkins at tvnewstalk.net