Ike in color! -- Oldest known color videotape

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[Ditto]

I'm sure the cameras used were the bleeding edge of tech at the time.

I recall being at a college football game back in the late 50s early 60s that was being televised in color (NBC I think). It was a very hot September day. They strapped blocks of dry ice on those three-tube color cameras to keep them from melting down. Those big cameras must have sucked a lot of Watts.

[decimon]

You realize that, as much as things have changed, our ancestors were just as alive as we are today.

Our ancestors, as with Ike, were mostly awkward in public speaking and often frozen in front of a camera. Now, any fool will perform for a camera and too often do.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I remember getting a VCR in 1985 when I was in the 4th grade. I thought my folks were the last people on the planet to get one.

You're not my kid, are you? That was about the year we got our first VCR and touch tone phone. We also bought a microwave oven for my wife's parents, for $165 but they didn't want it, so we got it. I remember buying a #6 countersink bit to install it under the kitchen cabinette. I did own a Mac Plus in 1985 ($2,200, used! With image writer dot matrix printer and 10 MByte SCSI hard drive.)

[BluH2o]

My family’s first color set was a Sony Trinitron around 1970, and it worked flawlessly.

My first television was a Sony Trinitron which I purchased back in 1969-1970 era. It was still working well into the 1990's. Watched many a Super Bowl on that TV ...

[KarlInOhio]

You're not fooling anyone with your wacky theories that the past was in color. :-)

There might be earlier color recordings of television because some TV shows were archived by filming a TV running a live show.

As for antique color, I just saw the first part of a history of WW II\. They showed a color (one of the earliest) film of the World War I victory parade in Paris. They made it quite clear that it was filmed in color and not a colorized B&W film.

[texson66]

This was way back when the good old USA was still America! Not the Amerika of today. I’ll always miss you, America.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The first mobile video tape cameras and record decks were an ungainly pair. The camera weighed about five pounds and could be carried on my shoulder. The deck was a 50 pound monster, as big as a television set, requiring a pair of bandoleer battery packs carried across each shoulder. On a cold day, you might have 12 to 15 minutes of record time.

[GOPJ]

It’s only in the past 20 years that the ability to record audio and video became so ubiquitous that we will be able to look back at the lives of average people and see how they lived in amazing detail.

You're right - it's an amazing time...

[SamAdams76]

Now Trump is in the White House so the color has returned once again.