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Last night here on cable they showed a Nureyev production of the "The Nutcracker"... typical Christmas fare...but the recording was made in 1968 by the BBC.
This would make it a very early BBC colour broadcast.
The colour was astounding even though it was a live broadcast from Covent Garden. The three tube cameras were clearly adjusted carefully and despite the flaring when a dancer moved too fast the images were PAL at its best ...625 lines (ie 580i) and without the red/orange tinge that seems to commonly seems to afflict NTSC from that period. (If you want to compare NTSC and PAL ..or for that matter ATSC and NTSC ...look for any gold objects ..in PAL and ATSC they are gold in NTSC they tend towards an orange color).
It is great to know that the tape has been carefully preserved (there were no obvious tape problems...the picture was stable and without any obvious dropout).
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