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Originally Posted by DaveCraddock
Colour television was first shown in Australia n 1963 when EMI Broadcast division received four EMI 204 colour cameras. These were the three vidicon version, which were in fact three 201 cameras in one case.
The first showing was at the Sydney Showgrounds when there was a small studio with two cameras and about 6-8 extremely large and heavy monitors around the showgrounds fed with an RGB feed. Afterwards one camera was installed in to the mediacal department of the University of New South Wales where experimental heart surgery was being conducted and another one went to the Museum of Applied Arts in Sydney.
How do I know all this, well I was the EMI Broadcast Technical Manager and the only one who handled the colour equipment. The other two cameras I cannot talk about as I transferred to EMI New Zealand just after Easter 1964 when they were still in the Homebush labs.
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G'day Dave, thank you so much for sharing your valueable knowledge on early colour experimentation in Australia and your experience in the field
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I have a few questions out of curiosity, I've made a colour picture snap a few years back from a Sony AVC-3200CE vidicon camera using red, green and blue cellophane and combining the channels in Corel Photopaint and the pic can be viewed here
http://www.labguysworld.com/RGB_002.jpg , I was wondering are the pictures from those EMI 204s the same/similar to the colour image I made? Secondly those monitors, were they round screen US brand colour TVs? Thirdly I was wondering if you might know anything about that modified RCA TK-40 type camera
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/hwtports/0...hp004692.shtml used in St Vincent hospital?
Cheers
Troy