Color TV, Princeton, Eisenhower 1958 oldest colour broadcast

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1755   6 years ago
PRINCETON'S RCA (now Sarnoff, on Rte. 1) invented the color TV...Color TV is just one of the recognized incredible innovations from Princeton's Sarnoff Corp. formerly RCA...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, Princeton of the Sarnoff Corporation, formerly RCA, 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/cat...‬ . 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./nUSA 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!!!/nHistory Of Television Network Branding-In Living Colour When American Television Turned to colour, These idents are what viewers saw before or after every colour programme. NBC was the first because it employed the RCA system for transmitting colour which was selected by the NTSC and adopted by the US FCC as the American Transmission Standard. (Radio Corporation of America ((now Thomson CSF)) was the parent of NBC)./nCBS which had competed with it's own colour system (sequential, colorwheel) developed by the CBS Laborotories in Stamford CT by Dr. Peter Goldmark was second and ABC which had no organically developed system was 3rd to adopt. NET the predecessor to PBS was largely rolled out in color in the late 1960's and PBS since 1971 has always been a color caster.
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