As we get ready to bid farewell to broadcast television as we know it and prepare for our new digital overlord’s arrival on February 17, let’s take a peek at a past television technology when it was all shiny and new. In the early 1960s, RCA produced a promo film that, in this clip, used very simple animation, shots of fruit baskets and beauty queens, as well as a bunch of hyperbole to explain, among other things, why the “miracle of compatibility” meant you could watch all your favorite black and white shows on your new color set.
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Where Would We Be Without The Miracle of Color Television?
By
Lynn Peril
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