G'day all.
It looks like this fantastic colour videotape footage of Dwight Eisenhower's dedication to WRC-TV May 22nd 1958 has finally been somehow leaked out into the public, I have been searching for a copy of the this presentation in any form for a while and I saw a DVD copy go on Ebay which the auction ended, but with a little more Googling I found the entire presentation on the video site Veoh.com on this page
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/ca...1020606nr3MbJG , and it gets better, if you install Veoh Web Player, you can download the whole presentation which so happens to be in DVD MPEG 6000kbps variable bitrate quality interlaced. I did that and put it to disc and watched it on my telly in fantastic quality, it was thrilling to watch and see how fantastic colour television looked way back in the 50s, the quality is compariable to 70s/80s plumbicon pictures, the colours were nice and rich too.
Also on YouTube someone has uploaded the colour videotape recording of Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev Kitchen Debate from July 24th 1959 which can be viewed here:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7HqOrAakco
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6RLCw1OZFw
I have to admit I was a bit cagey in telling you's about it as I understand that it is heavily copyrighted material that somehow got leaked out and Ed Reitan whom had a major role in the restoration of this presentation might be concerned knowing about this because of the copyright, but you's would of came across the video sooner or later anyhow and seeing I'm the first to find it, I'm the one to inform you's so anyways the video is up on Veoh for everyone to download for their own enjoyment of the feel of 50s living colour and the presentation!
Lastly as a side note a lot of this copyrighted archive footage does get leaked out to the public all over the globe, whilst it infringes the copyright laws, it's good that this wonderful footage is made available to those who want to see it as for stuff like this to be commercially be released would be unpredictable and could take probably take years or decades or may not at all get released at all due to low public demand as it is acquired taste material. This was the case with Soul Train, Don Cornelius was pissed off that bootleg copies of the show were going around worldwide on VHS tapes and DVDs getting sold on Ebay, however it was a good thing for all those who loved classic Soul Train and wanted to see those great shows again including myself, in recent years Don has sold the rights to MAD Entertainment and they are planning DVD releases of classic episodes by public demand
http://www.soultrain.com/ .