TF1

TF1 is a French free-to-air television channel owned by TF1 Group, which is controlled by the Bouygues construction company. TF1's average market share of 24% makes it the most popular domestic network. Launched on April 26, 1935 as "Radiovision PTT", one of the oldest television channels in Europe, it adopted its current name and the full name "Télévision Française 1" in 1975, and in 1987, was privatized and dropped the full name.

1st ID (January 6, 1975-1976)

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Visuals: On a dark blue background, several gold six-pointed stars are seen. In sync with the music, they grow and arrange into a pattern similar to the current USA flag. They then turn to "t" shapes, which flip to "f" shapes while they zoom in and change color. When they get closer to the screen, the background turns pink and the shapes take various colors and flash at random times. A green "t" appears and makes copies of itself that flip in sync with the theme as the background becomes dark blue again. It then slips into three "f" shapes before one "f" remains and flips around to form the green "t", interlocking with the "f". A green "1" zooms out and locks in with the logo, which comes closer to the screen with a yellow shadow and the letters in red, white, and blue respectively. The black text "TELEVISION FRANÇAISE" and an eye shape to its right appear below also in sync with the music. The camera then zooms into the blue "1" as the background becomes blue. The camera reveals a purple background with the "1" on a blue circle. The shape of a eye then appears around it, with three copies coming out. It moves up and the copies disappear as the logo appears below, this time in red, pink, and green, respectively. The camera zooms in on the logo as copies emerge from the eye, and cuts back to the logo fully forming.

Variant: There is a closedown variant in which the logo plays in reverse.

Technique: Traditional animation by Catherine Chaillet.

Audio: A triumphant trumpet-heavy orchestral fanfare.

2nd ID (1976-1985)

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Startup

Closedown

Visuals: On a black background, several orange curves come in, forming the eye from the previous ident and making a sunrise shape. A circle zooms in, completing the eye, which zooms in to reveal a time lapse sky background. Two multicolored ribbons come in and form two "t" shapes from the previous ident. The second shape rotates to become the logo's "f" and a "1", also made from a ribbon, slides in and forms the logo, which zooms in. It then cuts to a different sky background with multiple "tf1" logos drawing in. They fly away as some of them attach to a whole row of the logos, scrolling along. It then cuts to another sky background with a scrolling floor made of TF1 logos and a golden eye. The eye zooms into the screen, which then cuts to a different sky background with the logo in blue, purple, and pink zooming out, having a bit of an emboss effect. "TELEVISION FRANÇAISE" in brown wipes in below, followed by the eye appearing to its right.

Variants:

• A closedown version exists. The eye colors are different at the beginning and zoom out, followed by a glowing outline of the eye scrolling up. The sky background is replaced by a space background, with each "tf1" logo being in one of different colors and drawing in around. It then fades to the wall, also in different colors, with one logo drawing in. A new segment is also added, where a pink "tf1" logo rotates and the 3 pieces in green, yellow and orange go through it, fusing and flattening when they get through, before being colored in and zooming at the camera. The penultimate scene has the logos on the floor glowing, and the logo on the final scene now sparkles, with the bottom text in red.
• A still in-credit version was used on 1981 episodes of Sesame Street's original French co-production (1, rue Sésame) alongside the 1978 Children's Television Workshop logo.

Technique: A mix of slit-scan, Evans & Sutherland mainframe computer effects and motion-controlled animation by Robert Abel & Associates.

Audio: A disco-like remix of the fanfare from the previous ident composed by Vladimir Cosma. The closedown variant's music has a more mysterious and dreamy feel.

3rd ID (January 1, 1985-1992)

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Visuals: On a cloudy sky background, the screen zooms past several pillars into a temple-like structure. Rings form on the top and bottom as several "1" shapes fly around. A sphere with "1"'s on its outside then comes up from the bottom, briefly rolling on the floor as a cube made of "1"'s with a sphere inside flies by. The cube floats a little before flying out of the pillars, causing silhouettes of different people on squares to slide down. The rings on the top now move away as the sphere, now larger and with another blue sphere inside it, comes into view and they go inside it. The sphere of "1"'s then comes inside it and several videoclips play, with the sphere having a ring of them. The sphere then ejects the camera and flies past a sculpture of a woman's body. The temple then comes into view, as well as two of the "1" cubes. The temple and cubes zoom away as a blue object comes in, revealing it as a segmented version of the previous logo made of horizontal lines. It rotates into an angle as the lines on the front become lighter blue. A rectangular iris-out then ends the ident.

Technique: CGI animation.

Audio: A funky synth theme with piano.

4th (known) ID (2006-2010)

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Visuals: On a dark-blue gradient background, the camera turns and backs away to reveal the then-current TF1 logo (a half-blue, half-red bar with white uppercase text on it reading the channel's name in Gill Sans Ultra Bold) that's situated in the center of a square-shaped scoreboard, with a set of lights placed below it on the surface. The dots of said scoreboard light up one-by-one (first by a zooming ring shape, followed by a stripe shape sliding upwards), the same which goes to the lights below.

Variants: There are variants where the beatbox sound and stripe shape are slightly different.

Technique: CGI animation by Aerodrome Pictures.

Audio: A light synth beatbox sounder.

5th (known) ID (2011-2013)

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Visuals: On a light-blue snowy background filled with sparkles on the surface, the TF1 logo from the previous ident is suspended in the center. The steel-blue letters "T F 1" then move from the right to the center in the background as the camera slowly zooms towards the setting.

Technique: CGI animation by the Paris-based agency Naked.

Audio: Another synth beatbox sounder with chimes and a whoosh.

6th (known) ID (2013-2021)

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Visuals: Starting on a teal background, the screen backs away and transitions through diagonal glassy bars flipping in to reveal the current TF1 logo (now with colors of its bar being a full-on gradient with a glossy shine) that shines and slides from the left in the center on a dimly lit steel-blue background.

Technique: CGI animation by Naked.

Audio: A soft six-note synth-piano/choral tune.

7th (known) ID (2021-)

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Visuals: First, a District Z badge is seen on the grass, then a hand picks it up as a glowing white outline draws a square in the center, which reveals a "1" that's followed by two other letters of the channel's current logo sliding themselves open from the left as said shape extends into a horizontal bar, resulting in the appearance of the channel's logo from before, now made glass like a snow globe, with its top shining by a lens flare sliding out to the right.

Technique: A mix of live-action and CGI animation.

Audio: A deeper rendition of the previous ident's jingle with a more trip-hop-influenced beat.

External Link

• Official Website

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