http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/history/history.htm says that experimental 405 line color started on 10 October 1955.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/pye_e...tal_color.html shows an experimental 405 line PYE color set.
Then I came across a book titled "The 1950s" by
Edith Horsley
Domus Books
A Bison Book
Edith M. Horsley
U.S.A./Quality Books
Copyright 1978 Bison Books Limited
ISBN 0-89196-015-5
Printed in Hong Kong
Prduced by Bison Books Limited
4 Cromwell Place, London, England
Published by Quality Books Inc.
This book is written apparently in American English (e.g. "color," not "colour"), but has a great deal (perhaps majority) of English events as well as American and international.
On page 91, in the 1953 chapter, it has a couple of color illustrations attributed to Radio Times Hulton Picture Library. These photos purport to show 1) a cameraman and subject experimenting with color TV in 1953; 2) a family watching an experimental color set (no date).
So, my question is, what can we find out about what these pictures are really showing and their likely real dates?
The studio camera is too compact to be a simultaneous color camera of that time, but could conceivably be a field-sequential camera.
>>Anybody have any knowledge of this particular camera model?
The color receiver looks like a mock-up or publishing cut and paste. Rectangular screen and too compact to be a round shadow mask tube, also definitely not a field-sequential color-wheel set.
Despite all the doubtful features, the photos are in color, indicating perhaps that color was important to the original purpose.