1954 RCA Color TV raffle for Disney toy buyers

[old_tv_nut]

Buyers visiting Walt Disney character merchandise licensees at the 1954 New York Toy Fair could register to win an RCA color TV.

[ceebee23]

I wonder who won and what became of the set!

[Penthode]

Interesting that the 1954 pamphlet depicts a rectangular CRT mask instead of the double D mask of the round CRT.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Penthode

Interesting that the 1954 pamphlet depicts a rectangular CRT mask instead of the double D mask of the round CRT.

It was very likely that the ad artist never saw a color set and just used a stylized screen shape similar to monochrome sets.

[ChrisW6ATV]

This reminds me of the five Westinghouse 15-inch color TV sets given away to laundry detergent buyers.

[Yamamaya42]

Seems fitting that "Mickey Mouse" would be on the pamphlet, as most here know, since the set has many high freq circuits in it, it has many PF capacitors, or as they were called back then, MMF, and the way our High School electronics class teacher ( who was retired Air Force Tech ), would call them and taught us "MickeyMicroFarad" because, anything that had to use caps that small was obviously a "Mickey Mouse" unit!

Just one of the many useless things taught in the class that you never forget, like the resistor color code mnemonic, ( VERY NON PC, AND CAN'T BE REPEATED OUT LOUD! :p )

or how to do a "12th level adjustment "
if several hours debugging and trying to fault track fails, take unit, hold 12 inches above work surface, drop it, RETEST, if pass, then send unit back to field, unit repaired! if still fails, toss it in trash, order a new one!

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

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Just one of the many useless things taught in the class that you never forget, like the resistor color code mnemonic, ( VERY NON PC, AND CAN'T BE REPEATED OUT LOUD! :p )...

Made me laugh, I and I am here to tell you that Violet did not!!!!

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

This reminds me of the five Westinghouse 15-inch color TV sets given away to laundry detergent buyers.

I didn't know about the Westinghouse giveaway. Motorola gave away 100 sets:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/fab_contest.html

[ChrisW6ATV]

Oops! Yes, that is the contest I meant. I had the brand name and quantity wrong.

[radioal]

Wasn't the worlds fair in 64? Or was there an earlier one. I went to the 64 NY worlds fair although I remember very little of it as I was barely a toddler at the time.

Al

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[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by radioal

Wasn't the worlds fair in 64? Or was there an earlier one. I went to the 64 NY worlds fair although I remember very little of it as I was barely a toddler at the time.

Al

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Correct.

This was a trade show for the toy industry.

[radioal]

My bad. Misread that.

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