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dirtmayor@beehaw.org to Videos@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Exact moment when news station switches from black and white to color TV for the first time

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Exact moment when news station switches from black and white to color TV for the first time

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dirtmayor@beehaw.org to Videos@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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Video of WMT-TV switching from black and white to color broadcastsWMT-TV Channel 2 in Iowa switched from its black and white programming to color for the ver...
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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    That is so cool thank you for sharing.

  • Jim@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    That’s pretty neat. I wonder if they had to switch sets because backgrounds for black and white shows used exaggerated colors to improve the contrast.

    See The Addams Family set below.

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    • PotjiePig@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Thats so cool. Thanks for sharing.

    • BlueDiamond@rammy.site
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      2 years ago

      I remember how mind blown i was when I saw that photo & learned that red shows darker than black in b&w film. So cool

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      2 years ago

      And, of course, people remember how bright and colorful the set of the original Star Trek was, and the costumes, too!

  • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
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    This post made me go down a bit of a rabbit role about colour TVs…

    TIL Thunderbirds was recorded 4 years before it could be broadcasted in colour in the UK on ITV.

    The History of Colour TV in the UK

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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    I didn’t think it would be that dramatic but it was. And I’m sure it was 100x more dramatic for anyone that actually had a TV capable of color back then.

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