{"id":25660,"date":"2014-06-25T04:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25660"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:13:05","slug":"television-cameras-were-the-eyes-of-a-generation-this-is-television-history-the-way-they-saw-it-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25660","title":{"rendered":"June 25, 1951\u2026The First Commercial Colorcast Is Done By CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 25, 1951&#8230;The First Commercial Colorcast Is Done By CBS<\/p>\n<p>Sixty three years ago today, the first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.The whole story and 20 rare photos are at this link<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/cbs-field-sequential-color-cameras-at-studio-57\/\">https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/cbs-field-sequential-color-cameras-at-studio-57\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although there is not a lot of information CBS Studio 57, we do know that it was so hot that day, the floors buckled in a few places. The facility was also known as The Pace Theater and was located at 1280 Fifth Avenue. I think this studio was the home of all the CBS Field Sequential Color testing and after the RCA Dot Sequential Color System won, CBS left there around 1953.<\/p>\n<p>As you will see in the article, there appears to have been three modified RCA TK10s in use as Field Sequential Color cameras&#8230;more on this in the next post. Enjoy and share!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyesofageneration.com\/Archives_CBS_Color.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Television cameras were the Eyes Of A Generation; this is Television history the way they saw it\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477218024_593_Television-cameras-were-the-Eyes-Of-A-Generation-this-is-Television-history-the-way-they-saw-it.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/693952103975675\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 25, 1951&#8230;The First Commercial Colorcast Is Done By CBS Sixty three years ago today, the first commercial color telecast took place as CBS transmitted a one-hour special from New York to four other cities.The whole story and 20 rare photos are at this link https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/cbs-field-sequential-color-cameras-at-studio-57\/ Although there is not a lot of information CBS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25661,"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":[683,724,783,788],"class_list":["post-25660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-cast","tag-cbs","tag-rca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25660","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=25660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60028,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25660\/revisions\/60028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}