Earliest surving color video tape of an entertainment program 10/08/1958
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk8jIPbEBwk

The best parts are the Kraft color commercials with Ed Herlihy and a snippet of the original The Price is Right with Bill Cullen in color!!!!

Thank you. I’m going to post this link to an earlier thread.

Thanks! I remember the live Kraft commercials as being some of the best live color on TV. In 1958 I was 14 and fascinated by color TV, but our family didn't get color until many years later. I don't think I ever saw this episode, and I think the video quality (discounting the tape banding) improved in later years. Here you can see some issues with camera misregistration in the corners and horizontal scan ringing.
Funny to hear Berle joke about the hand models and Herlihy segue from that.

OTVN, just curious - what was your level of electronics expertise at 14? I was 13 in '58.

Pretty low. Sometime in my teens I was given a mostly working round-tube black and white chassis without a cabinet and managed to not destroy it or myself, but really never learned circuits until I was in college. High school was spent in taking every science course available, including going to summer school to fit them into 4 years along with all the required courses. I also started playing with photography during high school, with an old camera given to me by my chemistry teacher, developing and contact printing B&W film. With his coaching, I even tried making a sensitized paper, but I now know that we were working with a way too high concentration of halide that precipitated out like grainy soup.