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Originally Posted by wa2ise
Here's a photoshopped picture of an Admiral bakelite TV watching the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Just like back in the day it happened. . . .
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Well, first thing, the real time images of the
live walk were not nearly that clear. You need to smear up the TV image and add a trailing image lag. It was a few days before the cleaner images were available.
I remember this launch more vividly than the last show I watched on TV!
The launch, in color, and walks, in B&W, were watched on my 16 inch Toshiba, rebranded by Sears, that produced the best NTSC over the air color I ever saw, until I bought my current DLP set in 2005. I watched NBC when they were in color, but switched to CBS when NBC went to B&W.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/21_inch_color.html#sears
Since at the time, I was working at ABC, I also dragged out my "retired" 8 inch Motorola set and left it on top of the Toshiba tuned to ABC.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/motorola_9t1.html
I remember going to work like a zombie the next day after the moon walk from the lack of sleep and guess I was lucky not to get fired.
During the weekend moon landing, I watched, actually mostly listened as it was all off camera, on a 5 inch portable that someone had brought to the set during a break in weekend film shoot.
James