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Old 10-19-2012, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by bozey45 View Post
Red Skelton's production company had some of the first color cameras in use in Hollywood, on CBS no less. As I understand it, he experimented with color on his show as early as 1956. I remember the annoucement about his show being in color back then, not every week, which I thought was strange. The announcer would say "Live, in color from Hollywood, the Red Skelton Show...."
I owned two of those three CBS cameras... Actually they're TK-40s. UCLA now has one; the other is with a private collector and retired KTLA official.

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