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RARE! The NBC Color Caravan Story…June 9 – August 11, 1954 Some have heard about this, but for those that haven’t, we finally have the NBC Chimes Magazine article from August of ’54, thanks to our friend Dicky Howett in The UK. RCA and NBC were proud as peacocks with their new color abilities and […]

A PRIMER ON RCA’S EARLIEST COMPATABLE COLOR CAMERAS

  • January 17, 2021

I’ve just recently been able see these stunning in-house marketing photos that reveal some news about the first three sets of RCA’s compatible color prototype cameras. We now know the “name” of the first set of color compatible prototype cameras. These are the Princeton Cameras. There were two of these and after being built in […]

October 18, 1952…RCA’s First Experimental Color Football Broadcast

  • October 18, 2016

Below is a rare look at RCA/NBC’s first color remote unit, used for this color-cast. Although it was seen by 99.9% of the audience in black and white, it did at least prove the “compatible color” claim RCA made for its Dot Sequential color system. The year before, CBS had broadcast a football game in […]

1953: “This Is Color TV”

  • April 14, 2016

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