Rob Miles

In case you missed the item on R4 this morning, the attached item may be of interest.

Dave Buckley

I remember watching colour tests in the 1950s from AP – these were in NTSC 405 lines. The feature film ‘She wore a yellow ribbon’ was a favourite being shown regularly as well as a series of still photos which had obviously been selected to show colour in its all its glory!

I listened to the recording sent by Rob Miles and the audio about a test transmission is from the end section of ‘This is the BBC’ film first transmitted about 1960. When I joined the BBC in 1963, I asked how the pictures on the colour monitors were done and was told that they were matted in!

Simon Vaughan

Sylvia Peters had many a story to tell about the late-night colour test from Studio A at AP.

The attached video is of the first live studio colour transmissions (on closed-circuit) on 3rd April 1956:

         

[ed: this video is in black and white (film recording)]

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