This is all from the NBC 50th Anniversary Show from 1976. NBC did anniversary shows in 1986 and 2001--which were good--but the 1976 was by far the best and had amazing clips that I never saw again. I wish NBC would put it out on DVD.
Meanwhile on the "other side of the pond". After quite a bit of deliberation & lots of testing. The UK did not get it's PAL based Colour TV service until 1967 & then only then on one channel BBC2. (The two other channels BBC1 & ITV gradually switched to a full colour service on a regional basis from November 1969.) Celebrating 25 years of Colour Broadcasting in the UK on BBC2 and its development, early programmes etc. Well worth a look. Take a look at David Attenborough & others explaining all by searching :- " 25 years of BBC2 Colour TV TH-cam "
The days when we had proper television entertainment! Thank you for reminding us of whats been lost...great color recordings, thank goodness we had Ampex.
We have superb TV shows today, Agent 52. The problem is there's much that's AWFUL as well. I don't think most shows from that era hold up...at all...I'm bored silly by them.
It was amazing of what NBC accomplished with color during the first decade-from "Peter Pan" in 1955 (seen here) to the launching of "The Dean Martin Show" in 1965 and making ABC and CBS look like ordinary TV networks. These clips must of come from the network's 50th anniversary.
The "Peter Pan" excerpt was actually from a 1960 taped production, the third time Mary Martin played the role on an NBC-TV special. The first two, in 1955 and 1956, were broadcast live in color, but were only preserved as black-and-white kinescopes. That 1960 version has been rebroadcast several times (but not since 1990) and is also on DVD.
Thanks for posting this I watch it quite a bit, and use it for demonstration on my early color sets. I sure wish I could find a full copy available somewhere but in all these years I haven't found a full-length copy of NBC's 50th birthday
@catholicpriest1 True that! That Peter Pan play NBC special excerpt was actually from 1960 version but the Peter Pan play was first televised in living colour in 1955, then in 1956 and finally 1960 which was videotaped in colour, the two previous ones were kinescoped to B&W 16mm film. I guess NBC decided to fudge things a bit for the 50th anniversary special by picking the 1960 version because it was videotaped in colour.
That was what I thought about Peter Pan as I know no colour videotapes exist from 1955, I don't know if they were even invented that early. Didn't colour vidoetapes only come out in 1958, the year the Fred Astaire special was recorded?
Yes, the 1958 debut of color video recording took place in 1958 in Washington, DC, At RCA-owned WRC-TV. The broadcast is available for viewing here in its entirety here on TH-cam. President Eisenhower was there to commemorate the occasion, and is seen making a short speech in color.
There's no better measure of how a culture has deteriorated than by measuring it through arts and entertainment . The period before the 1980s was a golden age of class and intelligence. I have not seen a film , play or tv show in over a decade
NBC was virtually the ONLY network to promote and schedule color programs [albeit a handful in prime-time and daytime] in the late '50s and early '60s; CBS had a "moratorium" on color telecasts from 1959 though '65, due to their rivalry with RCA/NBC, and ABC didn't begin color telecasts until the fall of 1962-- and THEN,only two or three color programs were on their prime-time schedule through 1965.
There were rare exceptions on CBS. They did individual color episodes of some of their shows, like ‘Playhouse 90’ and ‘Burns & Allen’. Also, I think it was CBS, in the mid 50s, that started the annual airing of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in color.
@@esmeephillips5888 The scanning wheel system was impractical for the masses, and had some major technical issues with picture quality. Those issues are easily seen on videos of the astronaut's lift offs from the moon in the early '70s. The CBS system didn't make it on planet Earth, but it is the system that broadcast the first color TV from the moon!
@@davidh9844 Actually the CBS system wasn't that bad, and the color picture was much more stable than the RCA system. The main problem with the CBS system was that it was not compatible at all with existing black and white sets, while existing b&w sets could receive RCA color broadcasts. This killed the CBS system. The
@@jsat5609 Yep, had the US adopted sequential color as the system it wouldn't have been long before they figured out how to do it purely electronically. But at the beginning it had the benefit of requiring one camera tube rather than three, which is why it was used on the moon as a weight savings.
@ohbutyes Thanks a million. I was a year old in 1963, and find this a wonderful time capsule- that Streisand was ever being in an "up and coming" category!!
That was actually a three-cornered rivalry, and it was truly personal. CBS' Paley and ABC's Goldenson didn't like the idea of buying and using too many of Sarnoff's RCA/NBC TK-Series color cameras, film chains and color processing gear. That's another reason why ABC and CBS did not have hardly any color output until other manufacturers (e.g. Marconi, Norelco, General Electric) developed NTSC color cameras and other associated equipment from the mid 1950's forward.
ABC didn’t have the necessary equipment for network color distribution until (I think) 1966, or whatever year it was that ‘Bewitched’ began color production. So until that year ABC never broadcast anything in color. CBS had the equipment but, as you say, little incentive to broadcast in color. They didn’t totally eschew NTSC color in the 1950s. They produced some episodes of ‘Playhouse 90’ in color and began a tradition of annual color broadcasts of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in about 1955. Here on youtube you can search for and watch a rare color episode of CBS’ ‘Burns & Allen’, although the print appears to have been produced on Eastmancolor stock, and so the color has faded in the same way many of the early Eastmancolor movies have done.
@@robsemail - ABC frankly didn't have the money to do color in their early years. They began limited color showings as early as 1962, only film-based, and then took the plunge starting in 1965 and on through 1967 - but the color conversion was such that for years afterward they were in a financial hole. On equipment they were all over the place: a few TK-41C's here, Norelco PC-60's and PC-70's, and General Electric PE-250's and PE-350's for live studio color, and with film chains RCA TK-26's and TK-27's, and (in 1963, at a Union City, NJ outpost) General Electric PE-24's. CBS's taking the color plunge starting in 1965 went down easier due to Norelco's Plumbicon tube PC-60's, followed by the PC-70. They also had specially-made PC-71 cameras for use at the Ed Sullivan Theater (with a shield against the transformers from a nearby subway power substation), but because one of their owned stations (in Philadelphia) jumped the gun by acquiring the infamous RCA TK-42's, and in spite of the network being pleased with the PC-71's, they nonetheless replaced them in 1967 with Marconi Mark VII cameras (of which three of the network O&O's - in Los Angeles, St. Louis and Chicago - had to plunge them into local studio color). The network's aversion to color aforehand was entirely due to the rlvalry between Paley and Sarnoff - and the bitter aftertaste from the failure of CBS's own incompatible "color wheel" system in 1951, with the Korean War being the final nail in that coffin.
Notice how they show all of this culture performances. The truth is that the first color broadcast which was long-standing, was the how to do the show. The color years of how do you do again in 1955.
I think the Peter Pan clip is from 1960. NBC broadcast Peter Pan multiple times, 1955, 1956, and 1960, then I think they repeated the 1960 broadcast in 63, and 66, or thereabouts. The 55 and 56 versions were broadcast live, and exist only as b&w kinescopes. The 60 version was taped in color. If you order a dvd, be sure you get the color version.
My mother let me stay up late to watch the '55 Peter Pan, and again in '56. By the time the '60 show was broadcast, I was too old to watch that baby stuff.
to all those bemoaning the high quality of these clips vs. television today:these were cherry-picked snippets meant to show off the cultural superiority of the NBC network from a perspective of several decades. in other words there was plenty of crap on television in the 1950's and 1960's that doesn't get trotted out for a 50th anniversary show. As NBC's premiere highbrow star Arturo Toscanini was given the biggest and. est RCA television set - it was hoped that he would view cultural shows with his cocktail party guests. instead he treated his guests to wrestling and Georgeous George...
The Bell Telephone clips I know somewhat (being lucky enough to own a few DVD compilations), but it's the more obscure clips of the 'spectaculars' that are intriguing the crap out of me. When was Barbra Streisand on NBC- in such an early, beautiful "living color" videotape?!! I recognize the "Alice" footage (I think that was a "Hallmark" special from the late 1960's- and of course, both Kelly and Astaire dancing on TV were always a joy to behold. And the 1960 "Peter Pan," of course. Thank you.
the bell telephone hour was color from 1962..... and check out some of the hullabalu music shows from 1965 or so.... goldie hawn was on some of them and Michael landon hosted some also..... and.... jerry lewis!
I remember watching a performance clip of virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern in color on “The Bell Telephone Hour” from an episode in 1959. At that time, NBC would arrange to have one episode of each show that was regularly broadcast in black-and-white, to be broadcast in color each year. Isaac Stern’s appearance apparently happened on their special color episode. I saw the TV performance on the ARTS Channel, a nonprofit classical music and performance arts network.
From the 1962 special 'The Broadway of Lerner and Lowe ' Directed by Norman Jewison. 'Show Me' with Charles Nelson Reilly. Also, 'Camelot' with Richard Burton
@al1936ful I have put in only the clips that slot in with the 1958-1966 colour footage category and as the clips so happen to blend in with others that are outside the category, parts of those other clips I cut out will still be present. I sourced all of this footage from the NBC The First 50 Years special from 1976 which I obtained from a collector who recorded it on Betamax when it was aired back then.
Sadly, a lot of taped shows from the 1960's didn't survive, because the networks simply recorded over them to save money. Seems like mostly the big TV specials like these made it, probably because they planned to rerun them in the future.
From what I understand, the 1960 version was last rerun (in the 1970s) in 1973, then NBC made a new version (which I didn't particularly like) in 1976 that starred Mia Farrow & Danny Kaye. I taped the 1960 version when NBC reran it Mar. 24, 1989. It came out on Good Times video (shown as LP I think) not long after then.
Color quality in the good old days was poor at best, sets were outrageously expensive, as an 8 year old I would have been bored to death watching these shows. But today, they are just fantastic! Wish there was a library of all of them for viewing, start to finish, with irregular color, green faces scene to scene.
NBC had it's own in-house opera company who did a few television specials a year in the 1950's and 1960's. I was a small tyke in the later years of "NBC Opera", but I think Texaco sponsored the opera telecasts.
Orticon tube COLOR TV has the problem that it is blur in corners, bad 8dirty) white balance, light shines (reflection of light or metalic things) are overexposed and a black line contorn can be seen. When camera rolls panning, also is few sharp. Colors are unstable (NTSC was very delicate of signal and capture of color skeens). Thanks a lot! (Crist Stgo CL)
The RCA TK-41 color camera produced brilliant colors, was cumbersome, and highly unreliable. But the color rendition was never matched by the Norelco PC60 and RCA TK-44A Plumbicon-equipped cameras, and no cameras ever since. No wonder, Johnny Carson refused to give up the TK-41's in Studio 6B until about 1971. Unfortunately, most of the color programs videotaped staring in 1958 were taped over. At least, Greg Garrison, one of NBC's best directors, from Your Show of Shows and Milton Berle through The Dean Martin Show, assembled this footage for this NBC anniversary special.
Fictionalized, yes, but mostly in the backstory, character names and location. I don’t remember this color TV version, but the script for the play ‘Inherit The Wind’ and the screenplay for the Spencer Tracey - Fredrick March picture used actual dialogue from the trial. The scripted dialogue in the final courtroom sequence is lifted almost verbatim from the trial transcripts. ‘Inherit The Wind’ is NOT a work of fiction, dumbass!
@@MrRonfelder yes and no. It is almost a straight retelling of an historical event, however it was not written for television. It was written for the theater and adapted to film and later to television.
TV began in 1938 with a introduction at a World's Fair. Also the first broadcast was in 1939. By 1948 RCA and NBC did a show explaining while technology was there for color it was tough to do. First Broadcast was president Eisenhower press conference when he introduces Color tvs in 1953. NBC was first to lunch TV but CBS quickly followed and beat NBC. Dumont also arrived then went bankrupt and ended. A couple of shows moved to CBS. Then ABC began. Somewhere on TH-cam is the 10th anniversary of tv or NBC in 1948. Color TV did not outsell Black and White till 1966. Stuff until 1971 was always erased. So well lost stuff or it was in kinescope- Black and White.
RCA tried to make e a preemptive start to television from 30 April 1939 at the NY World's Fair. But the NTSC standard was not adopted until 1941. Commercial TV broadcasting began July 1,1941. The first NTSC color televisions were not available until 1954 but it was not until 1955 that practical 21" screen sets became available President Eisenhower only appeared on color television when he was present at the official opening of RCAs new color facility at station WRC in Washington in May 1958.
@@esmeephillips5888 At this time the first video recorders existed, extremely expensive, but some TV stations could afford them, also in Germany. The video heads didn't last very long and a pretty long time, film was used. Before the 1980's it was pretty few to use video outdoors. It's amazing how they managed the challenges, as color needs extremely bright light, as TV needed in the beginning.
SINCE these are all from american TV broadcasts (and all shot on NTSC video standard)...shouldn't that be 'COLOR television show excerpts'? COLOUR did not come to the UK until late 1967 i believe. the first airing of the Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour' was in black and white!
The BBC did actually make experimental broadcasts in the 1950's using NTSC. For various reasons not least of which was the problem NTSC had with producing consistantly true, sharp, and stable colours, especially in weak signal areas, it was decided to hold off until a better system was developed choosing the 625 line PAL system which was used for regular broadcasts on BBC tv from 1967. Congratulations however must go to those involved in pioneering the NTSC system which led the way and was at the cutting edge of 1950's technology. Sometimes being the first has its disadvantages, and later systems were able to overcome the endemic problems the NTSC system was stuck with.
You should really upload the whole special for "educational purposes." Just be sure to not monetize the upload and give credit to the network for rights....
To the people at WPBS in Watertown NY. Why not show classy and classic programming like this, particularly during your fundraising drives, instead of useless drivel like Daniel O'Donnell and Andre Rieu and endless repeats of Celtic music. I and others might be persuaded to start giving you money again.
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This is all from the NBC 50th Anniversary Show from 1976. NBC did anniversary shows in 1986 and 2001--which were good--but the 1976 was by far the best and had amazing clips that I never saw again. I wish NBC would put it out on DVD.
Meanwhile on the "other side of the pond".
After quite a bit of deliberation & lots of testing.
The UK did not get it's PAL based Colour TV service until 1967 & then only then on one channel BBC2.
(The two other channels BBC1 & ITV gradually switched to a full colour service on a regional basis from November 1969.)
Celebrating 25 years of Colour Broadcasting in the UK on BBC2 and its development, early programmes etc.
Well worth a look.
Take a look at David Attenborough & others explaining all by searching :-
" 25 years of BBC2 Colour TV TH-cam "
The days when we had proper television entertainment! Thank you for reminding us of whats been lost...great color recordings, thank goodness we had Ampex.
We have superb TV shows today, Agent 52. The problem is there's much that's AWFUL as well. I don't think most shows from that era hold up...at all...I'm bored silly by them.
It was amazing of what NBC accomplished with color during the first decade-from "Peter Pan" in 1955 (seen here) to the launching of "The Dean Martin Show" in 1965 and making ABC and CBS look like ordinary TV networks. These clips must of come from the network's 50th anniversary.
The "Peter Pan" excerpt was actually from a 1960 taped production, the third time Mary Martin played the role on an NBC-TV special.
The first two, in 1955 and 1956, were broadcast live in color, but were only preserved as black-and-white kinescopes.
That 1960 version has been rebroadcast several times (but not since 1990) and is also on DVD.
I think The All 3 Big Networks was in Their Best Moments at That Time of The Golden Age of Television
Thanks for posting this I watch it quite a bit, and use it for demonstration on my early color sets. I sure wish I could find a full copy available somewhere but in all these years I haven't found a full-length copy of NBC's 50th birthday
@catholicpriest1 True that! That Peter Pan play NBC special excerpt was actually from 1960 version but the Peter Pan play was first televised in living colour in 1955, then in 1956 and finally 1960 which was videotaped in colour, the two previous ones were kinescoped to B&W 16mm film. I guess NBC decided to fudge things a bit for the 50th anniversary special by picking the 1960 version because it was videotaped in colour.
That was what I thought about Peter Pan as I know no colour videotapes exist from 1955, I don't know if they were even invented that early. Didn't colour vidoetapes only come out in 1958, the year the Fred Astaire special was recorded?
@@Matt571 yep the first televised color show was in 1958 and Eisenhower was present at the studios to see it happen.
Yes, the 1958 debut of color video recording took place in 1958 in Washington, DC, At RCA-owned WRC-TV. The broadcast is available for viewing here in its entirety here on TH-cam. President Eisenhower was there to commemorate the occasion, and is seen making a short speech in color.
How in the world did we go from this to what we have now?
good question. I have the same exact question about society................
@@eamonhorahan666 I hear ya
There's no better measure of how a culture has deteriorated than by measuring it through arts and entertainment .
The period before the 1980s was a golden age of class and intelligence.
I have not seen a film , play or tv show in over a decade
Greed!!! Greed for money, correctness, and likes.
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE IN A FOURTH TURNING?
NBC was virtually the ONLY network to promote and schedule color programs [albeit a handful in prime-time and daytime] in the late '50s and early '60s; CBS had a "moratorium" on color telecasts from 1959 though '65, due to their rivalry with RCA/NBC, and ABC didn't begin color telecasts until the fall of 1962-- and THEN,only two or three color programs were on their prime-time schedule through 1965.
CBS was behind the 8-Ball on color b/c Bill Paley backed Peter Goldmark's scanning-wheel system instead of all-electronic.
There were rare exceptions on CBS. They did individual color episodes of some of their shows, like ‘Playhouse 90’ and ‘Burns & Allen’. Also, I think it was CBS, in the mid 50s, that started the annual airing of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in color.
@@esmeephillips5888 The scanning wheel system was impractical for the masses, and had some major technical issues with picture quality. Those issues are easily seen on videos of the astronaut's lift offs from the moon in the early '70s. The CBS system didn't make it on planet Earth, but it is the system that broadcast the first color TV from the moon!
@@davidh9844 Actually the CBS system wasn't that bad, and the color picture was much more stable than the RCA system. The main problem with the CBS system was that it was not compatible at all with existing black and white sets, while existing b&w sets could receive RCA color broadcasts. This killed the CBS system. The
@@jsat5609 Yep, had the US adopted sequential color as the system it wouldn't have been long before they figured out how to do it purely electronically. But at the beginning it had the benefit of requiring one camera tube rather than three, which is why it was used on the moon as a weight savings.
Early TV that wasn't from a 16mm film source, I like it! Could you upload it in 60p to get the effect the interlaced video .
@ohbutyes Thanks a million. I was a year old in 1963, and find this a wonderful time capsule- that Streisand was ever being in an "up and coming" category!!
I have a cousin who remembers when she worked at check out in a Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn. I wonder if she still does.
That was actually a three-cornered rivalry, and it was truly personal. CBS' Paley and ABC's Goldenson didn't like the idea of buying and using too many of Sarnoff's RCA/NBC TK-Series color cameras, film chains and color processing gear. That's another reason why ABC and CBS did not have hardly any color output until other manufacturers (e.g. Marconi, Norelco, General Electric) developed NTSC color cameras and other associated equipment from the mid 1950's forward.
ABC didn’t have the necessary equipment for network color distribution until (I think) 1966, or whatever year it was that ‘Bewitched’ began color production. So until that year ABC never broadcast anything in color. CBS had the equipment but, as you say, little incentive to broadcast in color. They didn’t totally eschew NTSC color in the 1950s. They produced some episodes of ‘Playhouse 90’ in color and began a tradition of annual color broadcasts of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in about 1955. Here on youtube you can search for and watch a rare color episode of CBS’ ‘Burns & Allen’, although the print appears to have been produced on Eastmancolor stock, and so the color has faded in the same way many of the early Eastmancolor movies have done.
@@robsemail - ABC frankly didn't have the money to do color in their early years. They began limited color showings as early as 1962, only film-based, and then took the plunge starting in 1965 and on through 1967 - but the color conversion was such that for years afterward they were in a financial hole. On equipment they were all over the place: a few TK-41C's here, Norelco PC-60's and PC-70's, and General Electric PE-250's and PE-350's for live studio color, and with film chains RCA TK-26's and TK-27's, and (in 1963, at a Union City, NJ outpost) General Electric PE-24's.
CBS's taking the color plunge starting in 1965 went down easier due to Norelco's Plumbicon tube PC-60's, followed by the PC-70. They also had specially-made PC-71 cameras for use at the Ed Sullivan Theater (with a shield against the transformers from a nearby subway power substation), but because one of their owned stations (in Philadelphia) jumped the gun by acquiring the infamous RCA TK-42's, and in spite of the network being pleased with the PC-71's, they nonetheless replaced them in 1967 with Marconi Mark VII cameras (of which three of the network O&O's - in Los Angeles, St. Louis and Chicago - had to plunge them into local studio color). The network's aversion to color aforehand was entirely due to the rlvalry between Paley and Sarnoff - and the bitter aftertaste from the failure of CBS's own incompatible "color wheel" system in 1951, with the Korean War being the final nail in that coffin.
Notice how they show all of this culture performances. The truth is that the first color broadcast which was long-standing, was the how to do the show. The color years of how do you do again in 1955.
Don Diego Vega That makes no sense, dude.
howdy doody went color in 1955.
I think the Peter Pan clip is from 1960. NBC broadcast Peter Pan multiple times, 1955, 1956, and 1960, then I think they repeated the 1960 broadcast in 63, and 66, or thereabouts. The 55 and 56 versions were broadcast live, and exist only as b&w kinescopes. The 60 version was taped in color. If you order a dvd, be sure you get the color version.
My mother let me stay up late to watch the '55 Peter Pan, and again in '56. By the time the '60 show was broadcast, I was too old to watch that baby stuff.
@@davidh9844 Now you're not too old anymore :).
to all those bemoaning the high quality of these clips vs. television today:these were cherry-picked snippets meant to show off the cultural superiority of the NBC network from a perspective of several decades. in other words there was plenty of crap on television in the 1950's and 1960's that doesn't get trotted out for a 50th anniversary show. As NBC's premiere highbrow star Arturo Toscanini was given the biggest and. est RCA television set - it was hoped that he would view cultural shows with his cocktail party guests. instead he treated his guests to wrestling and Georgeous George...
Tv was classify back then top quality entertainment .
Nice Comp there!
Ohh how i crave to own a TK-41
Have you checked Ebay?
The Bell Telephone clips I know somewhat (being lucky enough to own a few DVD compilations), but it's the more obscure clips of the 'spectaculars' that are intriguing the crap out of me. When was Barbra Streisand on NBC- in such an early, beautiful "living color" videotape?!! I recognize the "Alice" footage (I think that was a "Hallmark" special from the late 1960's- and of course, both Kelly and Astaire dancing on TV were always a joy to behold. And the 1960 "Peter Pan," of course. Thank you.
the bell telephone hour was color from 1962..... and check out some of the hullabalu music shows from 1965 or so.... goldie hawn was on some of them and Michael landon hosted some also..... and.... jerry lewis!
I remember watching a performance clip of virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern in color on “The Bell Telephone Hour” from an episode in 1959. At that time, NBC would arrange to have one episode of each show that was regularly broadcast in black-and-white, to be broadcast in color each year. Isaac Stern’s appearance apparently happened on their special color episode. I saw the TV performance on the ARTS Channel, a nonprofit classical music and performance arts network.
@eparkbuckeye Yes! He was hosting the NBC 50th Anniversary special!
I did not know Julie Andres did a teleplay version of my fair lady.
Michael Mcgee For the money.
From the 1962 special 'The Broadway of Lerner and Lowe '
Directed by Norman Jewison.
'Show Me' with Charles Nelson Reilly.
Also, 'Camelot' with Richard Burton
3:36 - They'd made an error on that clip; it was actually from 1960
@al1936ful I have put in only the clips that slot in with the 1958-1966 colour footage category and as the clips so happen to blend in with others that are outside the category, parts of those other clips I cut out will still be present. I sourced all of this footage from the NBC The First 50 Years special from 1976 which I obtained from a collector who recorded it on Betamax when it was aired back then.
Sadly, a lot of taped shows from the 1960's didn't survive, because the networks simply recorded over them to save money. Seems like mostly the big TV specials like these made it, probably because they planned to rerun them in the future.
@oldtvhistory And the 1960 version, if my memory serves me correct, was rebroadcast every year through 1970, and two or three times since then.
From what I understand, the 1960 version was last rerun (in the 1970s) in 1973, then NBC made a new version (which I didn't particularly like) in 1976 that starred Mia Farrow & Danny Kaye. I taped the 1960 version when NBC reran it Mar. 24, 1989. It came out on Good Times video (shown as LP I think) not long after then.
'Don't let tink die!' I can't remeber where I've seen that clip before O_O
Color quality in the good old days was poor at best, sets were outrageously expensive, as an 8 year old I would have been bored to death watching these shows. But today, they are just fantastic! Wish there was a library of all of them for viewing, start to finish, with irregular color, green faces scene to scene.
In its last few seasons, probably 1957 to 1960, “Howdy Doody” was broadcast in color on NBC.
@@LaptopLarry330 did you know Howdy Doody started Broadcasting in color as far back in 1955
My , how times have changed .
NBC had it's own in-house opera company who did a few television specials a year in the 1950's and 1960's.
I was a small tyke in the later years of "NBC Opera", but I think Texaco sponsored the opera telecasts.
Orticon tube COLOR TV has the problem that it is blur in corners, bad 8dirty) white balance, light shines (reflection of light or metalic things) are overexposed and a black line contorn can be seen. When camera rolls panning, also is few sharp. Colors are unstable (NTSC was very delicate of signal and capture of color skeens). Thanks a lot! (Crist Stgo CL)
The RCA TK-41 color camera produced brilliant colors, was cumbersome, and highly unreliable. But the color rendition was never matched by the Norelco PC60 and RCA TK-44A Plumbicon-equipped cameras, and no cameras ever since. No wonder, Johnny Carson refused to give up the TK-41's in Studio 6B until about 1971. Unfortunately, most of the color programs videotaped staring in 1958 were taped over. At least, Greg Garrison, one of NBC's best directors, from Your Show of Shows and Milton Berle through The Dean Martin Show, assembled this footage for this NBC anniversary special.
Co-worker tried to sing like Babs. Big mistake.
3:35 - Videotape didn't exist until '56, so this was a kinescope in colour.
Ampex corp supplied 2-inch tape recorders specifically for this event.
Inherit the wind was a work of fiction which is past off generation after generation public-school teachers as history.
it's based on a real incident. so it's a true story fictionalized for tv
Fictionalized, yes, but mostly in the backstory, character names and location. I don’t remember this color TV version, but the script for the play ‘Inherit The Wind’ and the screenplay for the Spencer Tracey - Fredrick March picture used actual dialogue from the trial. The scripted dialogue in the final courtroom sequence is lifted almost verbatim from the trial transcripts.
‘Inherit The Wind’ is NOT a work of fiction, dumbass!
@@MrRonfelder yes and no. It is almost a straight retelling of an historical event, however it was not written for television. It was written for the theater and adapted to film and later to television.
TV began in 1938 with a introduction at a World's Fair. Also the first broadcast was in 1939. By 1948 RCA and NBC did a show explaining while technology was there for color it was tough to do. First Broadcast was president Eisenhower press conference when he introduces Color tvs in 1953. NBC was first to lunch TV but CBS quickly followed and beat NBC. Dumont also arrived then went bankrupt and ended. A couple of shows moved to CBS. Then ABC began. Somewhere on TH-cam is the 10th anniversary of tv or NBC in 1948. Color TV did not outsell Black and White till 1966. Stuff until 1971 was always erased. So well lost stuff or it was in kinescope- Black and White.
RCA tried to make e a preemptive start to television from 30 April 1939 at the NY World's Fair. But the NTSC standard was not adopted until 1941. Commercial TV broadcasting began July 1,1941.
The first NTSC color televisions were not available until 1954 but it was not until 1955 that practical 21" screen sets became available
President Eisenhower only appeared on color television when he was present at the official opening of RCAs new color facility at station WRC in Washington in May 1958.
I never knew Barbara Streisand did a color show in 1963
They didn't have color video tape in 1955.
The first entertainment show in color was Fred Astaire's special in fall1958 on NBC, sponsored by Chrysler.
@@esmeephillips5888 At this time the first video recorders existed, extremely expensive, but some TV stations could afford them, also in Germany.
The video heads didn't last very long and a pretty long time, film was used.
Before the 1980's it was pretty few to use video outdoors.
It's amazing how they managed the challenges, as color needs extremely bright light, as TV needed in the beginning.
Supposedly, a lot of the "Bell Telephone Hours" from 1960 onward still exist in color.
@Quincy Holman Lots of things were. Unfortunately, almost all of them were wiped once they'd been rebroadcast.
Sad to think all that was lost when they erased all those color videotapes!
they saved a johnny carson tonight show from sept 1 1964.... the oldest survivivg color tonight show.
Do you have any clips from NBC's 10 hour "Glorious Fourth" broadcast for the Bicentennial? If you have them, please upload them.
Naw, pops.
Why do some clips come on for only one or two seconds? are you skipping over anything?
SINCE these are all from american TV broadcasts (and all shot on NTSC video standard)...shouldn't that be 'COLOR television show excerpts'?
COLOUR did not come to the UK until late 1967 i believe. the first airing of the Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour' was in black and white!
+dvtvrich Colour and Color are the same thing, so it doesnt really matter. If the uploader is British they would say colour, if american, color.
dvtvrich The BBC televised Wimbledon tennis in colour in the summer of 1967.
The BBC did actually make experimental broadcasts in the 1950's using NTSC. For various reasons not least of which was the problem NTSC had with producing consistantly true, sharp, and stable colours, especially in weak signal areas, it was decided to hold off until a better system was developed choosing the 625 line PAL system which was used for regular broadcasts on BBC tv from 1967.
Congratulations however must go to those involved in pioneering the NTSC system which led the way and was at the cutting edge of 1950's technology. Sometimes being the first has its disadvantages, and later systems were able to overcome the endemic problems the NTSC system was stuck with.
aka 'Never Twice the Same Color'.
@@esmeephillips5888 correct! that's why there used to be a 'hue' control on front panel of all "teeve sets"
Clip way too long with Astaire & Chase.
Anyworldseriestelecastsfrom1960sincolor
You should really upload the whole special for "educational purposes." Just be sure to not monetize the upload and give credit to the network for rights....
*ITS HER ITS BARBARA STREISAND!!*
On my god, I'm getting verklempt.....she is marvelous!
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To the people at WPBS in Watertown NY. Why not show classy and classic programming like this, particularly during your fundraising drives, instead of useless drivel like Daniel O'Donnell and Andre Rieu and endless repeats of Celtic music. I and others might be persuaded to start giving you money again.
Color*
+Bryan Martinez Colour is a Commonwealth (ex. United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) spelling for Color.
Bryan Martinez
That's why I'm here- I was looking for BBC colour tv clips pre-1970.
Don't like Streisand nor Bette Midler or Jane Fonda.