Posted on 11/22/2020 3:26:51 PM PST by OttawaFreeper
This is a compilation of rare colour television show excerpts dating from 1958 to 1966 shot on the first colour camera the RCA TK-41. These excerpts come from various programs like Bell Telephone Hour, Fred Astaire specials from 1958-60, Peter Pan, and various NBC drama play specials shot in living colour. From a 1976 NBC anniversary special
Ditto that.
I think that last one in the vid may be a rarity - the one w/Richard Burton in Camelot on 1966 TV. Wonder if there the whole musical of that and if it’s available.
I remember some cartoon show from the early 1960s, either Follow the Yellow Red Road or ...Brick Road. It was made to compete with Disney, yet I can find nothing on it. Anyone remember it?
LOL
Biden was going to try the fireside chat bit in his basement but set fire to the right sleeve of his Mickey Mouse Club pajamas. Close call. Jill (EdD) Biden threw some Gatorade all over him and saved him.
Here's a link to image on pinterest (can't hot link from there)
Dad: “Will one of you kids get up off your butts and go ‘hit the set’, the damn picture is ‘rolling’ again”. Remember those?
Ed sullivan show, commander cody, farmer grey, I had a port hole tv
.... WOW .... Memories ...... I remember when the networks finally went full color .... It was a big deal .... Of course you had to have a Color TV to watch them LOL.
Wow! I do.
The entertainment choices were A LOT classier than than they might be today.
ML/NJ
Good Lord!!
It was made by Eastman. The Kodak and Eastman Eastman??
I wonder what it cost in today’s dollars and how many people bought it.
I find indirectly and directly the most fascinating info on this site :)
I figure there’s about 3 generations on the board.
I’m 52 and I tell the 30 years olds about when I was a kid like them :)
If you watch the “Dark Shadows” series then you can see the switch over to color. In the beginning of color then it appeared that the camera spent a lot of time broken as there were often picture quality problems and episodes that had to be done in black and white.
The Victoria Regina one from 1961 (with Julie Harris and James Donald) would be worth a watch as well.
My Dad bought one of the early color sets.
I remember having to adjust the color on the set when we switched from one “c” show to another. Otherwise you’d be watching green faces.
The Flintstones and the Jetsons were best because the colors were pure.
I remember growing up how every year when they showed The Wizard of Oz on TV it was an event.
How cool was it when you first saw this.
The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxGyrQz_e8
That was probably late night Cinemax on cable. AKA Skinemax.
I had a very similar experience except we didn't get our color television until just in time for the 1960 NFL Championship Game. Any movie that was broadcast in color was a must. The Yankee games from Boston were the first baseball games we got to see in color and the basketball games from Cincinnati were also in color as was the Senior Bowl! This was in the NYC Metro Area. I suppose others had fewer choices.
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I noticed the spelling as “colour” instead of “color” implies a British commentator even though these shows are from NBC.
I was stationed in England from 1973-1976 and I can tell you that the quality of the British video system was far superior to that of the American system. If I recall correctly, the American system used 526 lines per screen while the British used over 600. The quality was noticeable as the picture was much more crisp.
However, in England we had to have a license to watch television. Really.
I remember seeing those vinyl sheets for sale at Woolworth in Little Rock back in 1968!
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