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Old 07-30-2016, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by tornadoman View Post
I was perusing the Getty Images site today and came across this pic of a color set dated Jan. 01, 1954. Was wondering if this is an actual color set, or a B&W set with a color image added after the fact?



http://www.gettyimages.com/license/2664328

This image is reported to be an experimental British television (Pye?) using the American Lawrence Chromatron (Chromatic Labratory) CRT.

In the 1953 Queen Elizabeth coronation, several Chromatron televisions were set up in a children's hospital in London and the kids got to see closed circuit color television during the coronation. There were several Pye color television cameras set up along the parade route. The BBC did not broadcast the coronation in color.

http://www.visions4.net/journal/chromatron/
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