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Color TVs
Well, I am sorry to disappoint you, but I really didn't get evidence to support the idea that more of those 300 sets have survived. I really don't have much of a clue to the behavior of people about preserving old stuff, but it seemed, for example, that many 50's and 60's black and white TVs survived in the city of São Paulo, and almost none in the city of Rio de Janeiro...I don't know why, but I have this theory that the people of the city of São Paulo tend to be more conservative than that of Rio, because São Paulo is rainy, cold, above sea level, while Rio is hot and have beaches...here in Brazil people joke and say that the people of São Paulo "carry the country in their backs" ( are very hardworking people ), while the people of Rio stay on the beach all day long, don't work at all, just play soccer, music and look for beautiful women. It's all stereotype, of course, but it gives some perspective on the character of the people's of the two citys. I can't post a picture of the round color TV my friend has, because he lives very far from me, and I only seen his TV once; the other guy I don't know him, I just saw his collection of movie related stuff and early TV years ago in a TV programm.
I did a little researching on the Net about those 1963 color experiences, and I could only find three photos. One is very tiny, is an ad for RCA Victor color TVs; the other is an ad promoting the color broadcasting of "Bonanza"; and the last one shows a lady that is in brazilian TV since day one in 1950, in fact she still apears in soap operas today, and in the picture she is posing with one early color TV camera - I never seen this model of color TV camera in the many sites devoted to the subject, anyone is familiar with that one?
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