Update, September 30, 2021
ceebee23, thank you mate.
Today is the second anniversary of the restoration of our Westinghouse H840CK15 with RCA 15GP22. To celebrate this event, let’s check in on how it’s doing. This time around I’m presenting photos of the entire cabinet with lit screen. The screen image quality is compromised, but it can be boring looking at a bunch of photos of images in the dark. Collectors know this set is reported to be the first * color television released for sale in the United States, however, some say the Admiral C1617A was the first.
The set is holding up nicely, we don’t see noticeable changes and the tuner remains drift free. No loss of brightness that we see without measurements and the odd placement of the hue control on the back of the chassis makes it difficult to adjust, so we had to set the hue after the circuit warms up to nominal performance. The remainder of the controls are dialed in and we don’t adjust them at all.
The three new movie previews are all technicolor, but not as good in color quality as “The Red Shoes”, which we covered previously. None of the movies were restored and we shot these photos with an iPhone X with onboard software, Halide which gives me more control and allows me to shoot in RAW. We processed in TIFF, P3 color gamut, then reduced to JPEG. The movies selected are, 1944 “Cover Girl”, 1951 “An American In Paris and 1952 “Singing In The Rain”. Gene Kelly stars in all three films with leading ladies, Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl, Leslie Caron in AAIP and Debbi Reynolds in SITR.
We took the shots at various times and days in September, 2021 which explains the different color temperatures. Reflections unavoidable in our room during the day.
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