RCA color tv set from 1956 with NBC logo

This video shows a RCA color tv set, the 21-CT-7855U, made in 1956, with a metal cone color picture tube. The tv set is fully restored and after more than half a century still in working condition. The tv set displays the NBC "peacock" color presentation logo of the 1960's.

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• color
• television
• NBC
• RCA
• logo

[DE4715]

how did you do it?

[TeslaMaster]

I reproduced an old color tv tape recording via antenna input with this set and filmed it with a digital camera. So easy and nothing more.

[TeslaMaster]

Yes, it is.

[haguilar84]

I'm just wondering if someone tried a converter box on that TV to get a digital signal.

[TeslaMaster]

I did it. Go to fernsehmuseum . net / rca / img / CTC-5_02.jpg.

[wdharveyoicu]

That seems to me to be a recording of a color broadcast on a vintage color TV...am I right?

[TeslaMaster]

Yes, it is an early videotaped recording of the Bell Telephone Hour.

[SteelCity1981]

Wow man having a color TV in 50's was like having HDTV to them.

[mmmbad]

The 50's and the 60's were great times. Most everyone seems to have forgotten the simple pleasures. I loved watching the peacock.

[bax323]

People laugh today, but color TVs were a big deal back in the day. They were very expensive. Adjusted for inflation they cost alot more than HDTVs. My parents couldn't afford one, I always went to my aunts house to watch her set. Didn't matter how boring the program was to me as long as it was in color.

[robertgift]

How interesting. Thank you, TM.

We never had a color TV until the 1970s

Was this color picture tube ROUND?

[poleeed]

back then that was like a 55inch 1080p 240hz 3D LCD-TV with 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio and wifi internet access.

[UncleMikeNJ]

There was a cartoon called "TV of Tomorrow," from 1954, showing a non-animated clip of a woman water-skiing, but only half the screen was in color. The joke was that the set was only half-paid-for.

[chuckbyf1]

Reminds me of watching Disney around 65. So exciting to see it in color for the first time. Brings back memories to hear the old G-E-C notes. That stood for General Electric Company who owned NBC back in the old radio days.

[Boeing744andRCAquad]

@SourApplez1211 Why is it scary? It(the Peacock) is one of the best TV logos ever created. The Peacock was created to grab the attention of viewers(and help sell those RCA color TV sets)which is why it stands out!

[IstvanN1961]

@Boeing744andRCAquad When I was a kid we had a large, metal cased "portable" TV, probably 24-26", BW Zenith that my cat liked to sleep on top of. Cats liked the heat the old tube TVs gave off. Her tail would fall down in front of the picture!

[Boeing744andRCAquad]

When my family had a Zenith "roundie", for some reason, our Siamese cat, KoKo, liked to lay on top of it.

I will never understand why NBC tried to ditch the Peacock in the mid-70's.

[toucansam3]

What on the TV did you restore? Are all the parts in the tube original?

[kagiso3741]

I want a time machine to go back to those simple times ..