Hi Sandy. What you said seems possible. The other Aussie who posts here Chris, he's told me that he's heard from someone that colour television experiments began in Australia as early as the late 1950s however have to try and get hold of some concrete information. I hope so anyways as there may be a possibilty of some roundie colour sets and even a TK-41 camera around in the land of OZ
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So far the earliest of colour being in Australia that I know of is in 1967 ATV0 borrowed TK-42 colour cameras from Channel 9 in USA and did an experimental closed circuit NTSC colourcast of one of the horse races which the the people involved were impressed with the results. Basically I'd say the people in the control room watched it in colour whilst it was broadcasted in B&W by killing the chroma signal on transmission. Anyhow I'm assuming these cameras went back to USA after that.
In 1968 at the Melbourne Expo was a demonstration of PAL colour television which Chris told me he went to and saw on the colour sets "The Flinstones" in colour. Anyhow Channel 7 did a colour demo with some young boy singing a song (think he later did "Young Talent Time") and fortunately this was recorded in colour on 2" quad and this footage was put on the "Young Talent Time Tells All" DVD set which my mate Frank copied that footage for me and the colour looked really good too.
I'm doing research finding out if colour experiments existed in Australia prior to 1967 and am buying "Radio, Television & Hobbies" magazines from the 50s and 60s from collector shops finding out if any experiments took place which I've not yet had success. Hopefully Chris may come across some great solid info on pre-1967 colour experiments in Australia.
I know that one day when I make a good amount of money and have a house of my own with good storage space I will import a roundie and maybe even buy a working TK-41 camera from Chuck Pharis if he gets a few of his TK-41s working though I'm only dreaming right now.
Cheers
Troy