NBC Color Footage from 1959

Chrysler sponsoring a color broadcast on NBC in 1959; clipped from a Fred Astaire show.

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• chrysler
• nbc
• astaire

[YesOzzy]

Was this how it aired in 1959? No way can the color be that clear.

If they had colr this good in 1959,how come we had B&W well into the late 60's.

AN if this is the real deal, hod did it escape NBC's incierator when they burned all thier archives in the late 70's?

[lest888]

I've tried to post this comment before but it didn't work.

NBC was owned by RCA and thus was motivated to promote color TV to sell more sets. The other networks held back and stayed with B&W for years longer. Look up "color television" on Wikipedia for more details.

This was probably remastered from original tapes - but these days we're so used to bandwidth compression, NTSC color standard (was it the same then? not sure), etc.

[Lamonjello]

Nice footage. Too bad you had to ruin it with the fake TV!

[DocWyoming]

hey, those cars were pretty cool.

[sopaman1234]

@greenrefrigerator I agree with you 100% my parents bought thier first color tv around 1968 or 69 but this thing was a monster console stereo and the tv built right in the middle

the brand was Admiral...and i also agree with you on the programming, back then no profanity all top quality show one of my favorite show was The Jackie Gleason show from sunnyMiami Florida which was on the weekend if i remember correctly on CBS..

[greenrefrigerator]

Heck, I remember my family didn't even get our first color tv set until around 1970. Even in then the biggest tv was a 25" console style, and you were really *something* if you had one of those.

Back then television was civil, good-natured and wholesome. Today they tell you to go f*** yourself on tv on pretty much any channel.

[sgtpepper1138]

Loved the video, too bad it wasn't rendered in higher resolution. Good stuff.

[paullubliner]

@williamg2552: IT IS the Government that decides how business records are categorized (Google IRS!) not the Vehicle Identification Numbers on stamped metal plaquards. Look it up!

[charterloungeparty]

The 2 Fred Astaire shows were expertly colorized somewhat recently- using the original photos and color samples to acheive the correct visual style. They made a big deal out of restoring these recordings to color at the time.

[williamg2552]

@paullubliner I'm going by VIN numbers...not tax records For further info , go to Google and put in IMPERIAL SEPARATE MAKE 1955. See for yourself.

[williamg2552]

@DatNiggaJaymacc You can see THE THIN MAN on YouTube. Just put in "The Thin Man with Peter Lawford" .

[williamg2552]

@DatNiggaJaymacc The show was called "THE THIN MAN". It starred PETER LAWFORD and PHYLLIS KIRK as a husband -and- wife detective team. It was not related to THE UNTOUCHABLES in any way. It was based on "the THIN MAN" series of detective movies of the 1930's and '40's starring DICK POWELL and MYRNA LOY. The TV series was on NBC. THE UNTOUCHABLES ran on ABC, and starred ROBERT STACK, NICK GEORGIADE, STEVE LONDON, PAUL PICERNI, ABEL FERNANDEZ, and JERRY PARIS as the UNTOUCHABLES.

[paullubliner]

@SuperBunkerbuster Not necessarily so. It also depended on your reception and your tuner's frequency bandwidth. If you had a very high end tuner of 4.2 megaCYCLES (when Hertz was only a rent-a-car company) that was the maximum possible response, and the quality was quite good. Most sets were in the 2.3 megacycle range and substantially poorer images resulted.