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Originally Posted by dtryon
Seems ironic kinda that a picture meant to impress us with the then new Color TV's was taken in B&W.
Seems a bit funny to me.
Dennis
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Ironic, but of course it was intended for distribution to newspapers, which did not use color except for ads and the Sunday comics. Sending them a color copy could result in random poor results depending on their process for producing half-tone printing plates, so much better to send them a black and white print in the first place. Plus, the national newswires would be sending via low-quality analog black and white fax.
Many NBC color program press releases consisted of text on a letterhead with a color peacock, possibly with a black and white photo attached.