Do It Yourself (1960)

Concept and creative process

Opening titles for Barry Bucknell's TV DIY guide - a weekly programme for people who were looking for new ideas and new ways to make their homes easier to run and safer and pleasanter to live in. At its peak the show had an audience in excess of 7 million. The titles were simple hand animation, filmed directly under the rostrum camera, with cut out photographs of tools. Blank strips of paper formed the word ‘IT’ and yet more, with type printed on them, completed the title. The hand and paintbrush were also filmed stop motion on the rostrum.

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