They were shot in color weren't they?
Posted on 07/22/2012 10:51:02 AM PDT by bigbob
This is sample footage of the earliest surviving colour videotape recording which is the Dwight Eisenhower inaugural address to WRC-TV on 22nd May 1958. The first 15 minutes of this event was shot in B&W which you see the president arriving to the building and the news reporter giving details of the event, then about nearly 15 minutes in Robert Sarnoff hits the colour switch and on comes the colour. For the remaining 15 minutes Robert Sarnoff, Dwight Eisenhower and David Sarnoff speak about the station and the colour television technology while being recorded in living colour!!! The whole program is available for download in DVD quality from a user on Veoh right here http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news/watch/v191020606nr3MbJG . In the sample I've included the B&W portion where the president arrives and the colour portion which Robert Sarnoff and Dwight Eisenhower speak.
USA started broadcasting colour in late 1953 and colour TV sets were available to the public in 1954 at an expensive price. Colour videotaping began in USA in 1958 and this footage is the earliest known to exist and it has been successfully transferred to digital for preservation. It is totally awesome to know that some colour programs from the late 1950s have survived on colour videotape as they show to us younger generations how good colour television really was back in its earliest days!!! Those RCA TK-41 cameras gave brilliant pictures back in the day!!!
(Six minute excerpt at the link)
I think it was that summer when Krushchev was visiting the US and noted that the US makes color video machines while they make missiles or some such. I believe was speaking to Nixon somewhere in Cal at that time.
Truly the Evil Empire.
Might mean the inaugural color television broadcast from the station.
As you say in your post, the Iwo Jima film is “film.” The example in the post is an early example of color video tape.
Weren’t those colorized later?
Film and videotape are two entirely seperate mediums.
One thing that irks me to no end is when people say “filming” something when using video gear instead of “recording” or “taping”.
It is like Rush with his redundant “audio sound bytes”. Maybe he does that to tweak some people.
Apart from some noise and maybe color saturation, it doesn’t look bad.
95% of the old quad color or b/w tapes I have worked with never looked that good. Then again the sources of those tapes were just wherever the agency stored them with no consideration for temp or humidity. In other words any cheap storage area would do.
I thought that film was just the video portion, and videotape was both picture and sound on the same medium.
16mm film was still in use by most TV stations for news until the early '80s and it is commom among camera crews to still say "film it." However it bothers me when I see a film shot in say the 1950s or 60s and everyone online calls it an old "video."
That makes perfect sense, President Eisenhower was recorded in both sight AND sound.
While the Flag Raising (Hell the Attack on the U.S.S. Arizona was originally filmed in color) was only the picture.
You make a very good point about how Ike came from the military yet was able to articulate how a delicate balance would be needed. Here is an excerpt that is worth pondering:
” Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present
and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system — ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
Bump
Nice!
Eisenhower ping!
The whole recording is public domain, people.’
In fact it’s been posted right here on FR before.
Screw the youtube and vimeo links, those were all sourced from HERE:
http://archive.org/details/DedicationDay-Nbc-washington-May221958colorVideotape
(MPEG2 is the same as a DVD .VOB file)
What part of "videotape" don't you understand?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.