{"id":24809,"date":"2014-09-07T05:39:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24809"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:18:46","slug":"september-7-1956-nbc-debuts-the-animated-peacock-57-years-ago-today-this-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24809","title":{"rendered":"September 7, 1956&#8230;NBC Debuts The Animated Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/September-7-1956...NBC-Debuts-The-Animated-Peacock-57-years-ago-today-this-a.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>September 7, 1956&#8230;NBC Debuts The Animated Peacock <\/p>\n<p>57 years ago today, this animated film clip rolled at NBC for the first time at the start of &#8216;Your Hit Parade&#8217; which at the time, was originating live and in living color from NBC Studio 8H. The voice belongs to legendary NBC announcer Ben Grauer. The animation was done by Electra Film Labs in New York City.  The man who designed the peacock is John J. Graham. <\/p>\n<p>There will be much more on this in the next post or two, but I wanted you to see this in the clear. Below in the comments section is the original peacock slide that debuted in July of 1956&#8230;fourteen months before this historic bird came to life. Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ug9ndBnWi9A\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ug9ndBnWi9A<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Technology News Timeline 1957 - NBC Peacock Signals Color Program\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ug9ndBnWi9A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>www.technologynewstimeline.com In 1957, NBC used this to indicate that the following program would be in color. It was the true beginning of the color-TV era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/725303130840572\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 7, 1956&#8230;NBC Debuts The Animated Peacock 57 years ago today, this animated film clip rolled at NBC for the first time at the start of &#8216;Your Hit Parade&#8217; which at the time, was originating live and in living color from NBC Studio 8H. The voice belongs to legendary NBC announcer Ben Grauer. The animation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[721,782,725,1105],"class_list":["post-24809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-announcer","tag-nbc","tag-star","tag-your-hit-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}