Hi all. I've been scouring the pay TV channel TV guides from time to time hoping to come across docos on history of television technology. I've so far taped one show a couple of years ago which dealt with the history of B&W and colour television and videotape technology and radio I think, great little doco, only thing is they didn't show a great deal of early archive television footage such as early B&W and colour video recording excerpts of the late 50s but they did show a kinescope excerpt of Philo T Farnsworth on "I've Got A Secret" which he won a pack of Winston durries and $40, how rude
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Anyhow I'm looking for TV shows on the history of television and video which shows excerpts of early B&W and colour video recordings of the late 50s and early 60s and wondering if anyone knows of any that circulates over the cab/pay TV networks. I'm particularly after the earliest surviving B&W videotape recording which is some footage of an OB truck driving along a mountain top or canyon with a B&W IO camera on top shooting the scenery circa 1956/57 and Edsel Show excerpts, and the 1958 Dwight Eisenhower speech which is the earliest surviving colour video recording and possibly excerpts of An Evening With Fred Astaire (I know about the excerpts on Kris Trexler's site). I especially want colour videotape recording excerpts of outdoor remote casts done off TK40/41 cameras as I'm so curious to see how live outdoor colour looked back in the early to mid 60s or possibly late 50s if any late 50s colour tapes of outdoor casts exist at all? I'm sure there must at least be some colour videotapes of outdoor sporting events from the early/mid 60s existing in some TV archives.
If anyone can give me leads on getting a hold of such docos I'd be most greatful.
Cheers
Troy