Looking for early colour video and kinescope recordings from the 50s and early 60s

[Aussie Bloke]

Hi all. I'm an Aussie who's fascinated with really early live colour pictures from the pre-1965 era and am looking for any show that was colour video recorded or recorded on colour kinescope film dating from say 1954 to 1965 and also the pre-1954 experimental era if any exist in colour.

Anyways so far I've got a hold of a Howdy Doody DVD release containing the final episode in colour dating 1960 and some Andy William bits of the Osmonds dating 1962 to 1964 and I'm really impressed that live colour television was that good back then as I'm use to seeing grainy scratchy quality B&W kinescope films of that era. That Howdy Doody episode is a GREAT example of early colour video technology because of the blue colour chromakey effects and ripple effects in the video, I never knew video effects like this even existed back then!!!

Anyways I want to get a hold of more early colour footage from the early years on colour video or colour kinescope film as I get a buzz out of watching early live colour. I've heard that the earliest known colour video recordings are a 1958 An Evening With Fred Astaire and a 1958 Eisenhower speech. And I heard there were some early colour kinescope films of TV shows from the earliest years too. So if anyone here has in their video collection any early colour video and kinescopes of 50s and early 60s TV shows I would love to trade for a VHS copy. I heard that that 1958 Eisenhower video footage was shown on an Eisenhower doco in recent years, does anyone here have this? Anyways if anyone can help me that would be fantastic!!!

I'm also after a VHS copy of the earliest surviving B&W video recordings too. The earliest I have is a watered down 25 minute Ed Sullivan Show from April 1959 which was really nice quality pictures. The earliest surviving video recordings I've heard of is an Edsel Show from 1957 and some footage where some remote truck is driving along some mountain range which the camera is on top of the truck shooting the scenery. If anyone has these and others from that era I'm also interested.

Cheers
Troy