The Colour Television Receiver

A beautifully overtly technical BBC trade test transmission film from the late 60s, demonstrating the new colour television receivers, and all the hard work involved in getting them to work. Guns and illuminant C and colour fringeing... no simple plug and play here!

I'm told that this film, narrated by a very plummy-voiced Michael Aspel, ran once or twice a day during the usual afternoon down time on BBC2 and, later, BBC1 as a guide for installers to calibrate the sets, and as a showcase for TV shops to have on in their windows.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• colour
• television
• michael
• aspel
• trade
• test
• transmission
• BBC
• 60s
• 70s
• archive
• tv

[TheCaleyman]

I left the TV servicing trade in 1990, and thank God most of that stuff had been engineered out ,even by that time.

[rubbrhog]

Fantastic... This, and the film about PAINT I remember sitting and watching in the late sixties on my Mum and Dad's old Sobell B+W dual standard set. Was given a Murphy CTV25 some years later, so was able to use some of this trying to get the colour picture to converge (some hopes!!)

[MrCrispian]

does anyone remember the test transmissions films transmitted in the late 60's and early 70's?

[gcbus]

Fantastic !! :-)

[callwithcurrentconti]

Oh wow, so that's what degaussing (degawsin)'s for.

[bonnie43uk]

Micheal Aspel came to our house once, he demanded £15 for our TV licence, and said if my father didn't pay, he would have us killed.

[peugteobike]

I like old tvs

[gailbostock]

Brillant it takes me back , i must have spent hours messing about at the back of an old colour TV playing around

[mukatuna]

A very plummy sounding Michael Aspel.

[redhairkid]

Gordon Bennett, I remember seeing this in 1969/70!