Dedication Day - NBC-Washington - May 22 (1958)
1958 · Television · 29 min
Synopsis
Dedication of NBC's new Washington, D.C. Facilities, housing NBC network and WRC-TV television studios on May 22, 1958. The program represents the earliest known color recording discovered to date. Recorded on 2" Quadruplex Videotape by Ampex VR-1000 series recorders. The program starts in black and white, showing President Eisenhower arriving outside the WRC studios. Later inside, Robert Sarnoff, president of NBC, pushes a button signifying the inauguration of the WRCA new color studios. As he pushed the button, the color encoder switches from a mono picture to color.
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Details
- Running time
- 29 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 50's Television
- 1950's
- Fifties
- 1958
- Live TV
- Color
- NBC
- WRC
- Videotape
- Ampex