An Important First And Last Event…
An Important FIrst And Last Event…
Below is a photo of the first television drama to be done in color…it is also the last experimental colorcast.
“To Live In Peace” was the episode title of the December 16, 1953 production of ‘The Kraft Television Theater’ and starred Anne Bancroft. It was done in color from NBC’s Colonial Theater…the night before the FCC announced the approval of the RCA pioneered version of compatible color.
At 5:31 PM, December 17, NBC was the first to broadcast a compatible color signal which was a still shot of the NBC Chimes logo using NTSC standards.
The camera here is one of the original “first four” RCA TK40s. They were hand built and delivered to The Colonial in late October of 1952. Assembly line production did not start till a year later after the the cameras were tested. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
When you say NBC became the first to broadcast a compatible color signal, you mean the first to broadcast *after* the FCC approval, correct? NBC of course had been broadcasting field tests in color for years.