{"id":24971,"date":"2014-08-24T06:37:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T10:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24971"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:50:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:50:17","slug":"an-important-first-and-last-event-below-is-a-photo-of-the-first-television-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24971","title":{"rendered":"An Important First And Last Event&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Important FIrst And Last Event&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Below is a photo of the first television drama to be done in color&#8230;it is also the last experimental colorcast. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To Live In Peace&#8221; was the episode title of the December 16, 1953 production of &#8216;The Kraft Television Theater&#8217; and starred Anne Bancroft.  It was done in color from NBC&#8217;s Colonial Theater&#8230;the night before the FCC announced the approval of the RCA pioneered version of compatible color.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:31 PM, December 17, NBC was the first to broadcast a compatible color signal which was a still shot of the NBC Chimes logo using NTSC standards. <\/p>\n<p>The camera here is one of the original &#8220;first four&#8221; RCA TK40s. They were hand built and delivered to The Colonial in late October of 1952. Assembly line production did not start till a year later after the the cameras were tested. Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/719852541385631\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/An-Important-FIrst-And-Last-Event...-Below-is-a-photo-of-the-first-television-d\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/719857744718444\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Important FIrst And Last Event&#8230; Below is a photo of the first television drama to be done in color&#8230;it is also the last experimental colorcast. &#8220;To Live In Peace&#8221; was the episode title of the December 16, 1953 production of &#8216;The Kraft Television Theater&#8217; and starred Anne Bancroft. It was done in color from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24972,"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":[683,724,775,782,725],"class_list":["post-24971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-cast","tag-colonial-theater","tag-nbc","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24971","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=24971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}