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  • tricolorCRT tricolorCRT commented 4 months ago

    RCA CT-100 -- CTC2 chassis B8000194

    Screen shot of 1944 Technicolor (3-strip) movie 'Cover Girl' displayed on a 1954 RCA CT-100, the first production color television set. Only the fl...

    tricolorCRT said:

    While I am not familiar with Lexel Imaging, I do know that Hawkeye shut down operations in 2010 and donated its tube-rebuilding equipment to the Early Television Museum in Ohio. The only 15GP22 to be successfully rebuilt in at least 40 years is on operational display at the museum. This rebuild w...

    • RCA CT-100 -- CTC2 chassis B8000194

      Screen shot of 1944 Technicolor (3-strip) movie 'Cover Girl' displayed on a 1954 RCA CT-100, the first production color television set. Only the fl...

      tricolorCRT said:

      Yeah, I didn't like it either, but had to download a 'freebe' program needed to upload this, my one, YouTube entry.

      Mark: I have been assembling a list of surviving CT-100 sets for twelve years now and have 139 of the aporox 4000 made by RCA in Bloomington IN during the spring and summer of 1954...

    • EarlyColorTV

      The RCA CT-100, one of the first color TV's that came out (1954). This was taken when we visited the American Museum of Radio and Electricity in B...

      tricolorCRT said:

      @TVonthePorch: as rockabillycat1954 mentioned, the RCA CT-100 was the first *production* color TV. One could buy an Admiral or Westinghouse or Motorola 15-in. color TV before the CT-100, but they were at best pilot production runs of only a few hundred sets at most, and probably no where near tha...

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