I'm sure y'all know this, but before browsing here I was reading a Billy Strayhorn biography, and a good part of one chapter deals with "A Drum Is A Woman," CBS's big-splash color production, using the wheel of course. Interesting stuff. Just 100,000 people had sets to watch it, and, of course, they would become useless when NBC won the standards battle.
One other interesting tidbit in that chapter..........earlier, people lined up in NYC to see a color set featuring...................a slice of baloney.
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Originally Posted by Joel Cairo
...from June 25, 1951-- courtesy of the Google/Life magazine archive (now available on the web)... and restored by yours truly.
Enjoy...! 
-Kevin |