The Colour Television Receiver Film

In 1967 when colour television was launched in the UK, it wasn't possible to drop into your local 'out-of-town' superstore and buy a colour tv and take it home yourself, it had to be installed, and it could be quite a complicated process.

So, the BBC and BREMA got together and made the Colour Television Receiver Film, also known as the Colour Receiver Installation Film.

The purpose of the film was to give retailers an idea of how a colour tv should be installed.

The film was transmitted several times a day on BBC 2 during trade tests.

It was also shown on BBC 1 UHF during the trade tests for colour in late 1969.

This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society.

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[velocet1976]

Is that Michael Aspel's vocals...? Sounds like him but not sure....this is classic! Was this done by the COI...?

[aptsarchive]

Yes, it is Michael Aspel doing the voice over. Think the film was made by the British Radio & Electronic Manufacturers Association.

[borgduck]

This is silly, surely?!

[aptsarchive]

Why silly! Colour sets were new, people were unsure of them, and needed to be explained - in great detail.

[TashkentFox]

I know it's a cartoon, but is the TV supposed to be a Pye or a Philips G6?

[aptsarchive]

Have now idea what the tv set is supposed to be. It is assumed to be a generic colour television receiver of the period!

[pikuorguk]

How to tune your curtain-burner...

[Electron1944]

@MIKON8ERISBACK Yes they did but the quality was absolute crap.

[tech4pros1]

i remember adjusting a setting on my grandma's tv to make all he people on screen look green :)

[NotATube]

@AidanLunn; I'm quite happy to believe the Sony was more reliable than its contemporaries, but I'm guessing it would still need more setting up and occasional tweaking than one (e.g.) built 25 years later.

I have a TV (Sony too) from the early 90s that has never been adjusted or fixed and still shows no sign of softening, aberration, etc. (Possibly that was the high water mark- I suspect quality may have declined from the late-90s onwards as things got *really* cheap, as with most stuff(?))

[AidanLunn]

Blimey, they're massive aerials! ;)

[AidanLunn]

@NotATube British ones weren't as reliable.

You can't say the same about the Sony KV-1320, though!!!

[mratmuk]

Reminds me of the old TV engineers' joke:

"Good morning madam - I've come to check your purity!"

[butiamthedoctor]

That was, a trade test transmission.

[wx4newengland]

what I like about this is that they explained you need a good areial tv get a good signal

[ducter2001]

What a great film, brings me right back to my early colour TV student days.

The early colour TV sets used a combi of transistor and thermonic valve(s)

During my training i remember having to do  convergence and colour purity

adjustments, & believe me it was a nightmare. By to-day's standards the amount of components in them early colour set's was unbelievable and they were power hungry! Tkns for posting.