Pye Experimental Color Camera; Field Sequential System

In the US, the color system battle ended in December of 1953 with the FCC adapting the RCA ‘Dot Sequential’ system over the CBS ‘Field Sequential’ system, but in the UK, this was not settled. This camera is basically a Pye Mark III – 84 – 2014 black and white camera with a color wheel mounted behind the bottom left lens. The hump on top is the housing for the motor that spins the color wheel. The rotation of the wheel was synchronized to the field period of the camera so that, red, green & blue images were presented in succession to the tube which would have been a standard 3 inch Image Orthicon type. The photo is believed to be from around 1954 and is courtesy of Brian Summer’s great site, http://www.tvcameramuseum.org.

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