The Broadcast Engineering Museum - England

[etype2]

Congratulations on the opening of the Broadcast Engineering Museum!

I wonder if you or others could shed more light on the experimental close circuit Chromatron color telecast of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. We know it was conducted by Pye and Chromatic using the 405 system with a field sequential camera and Chromaton monitors by Chromatic, NYC. Apparently several cameras were set up and the color telecast delighted sick children at the Great Ormond Children’s Hospital, watching on several 22 inch color televisions.

I’d love to see screen shots, but information is sparse. Here are three articles courtesy of Vision4 Magazine. https://visions4netjournal.com/422-2/

https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co.../IMG_8097.webp
https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co.../IMG_8098.webp
https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co.../IMG_8096.webp

[ppppenguin]

Originally Posted by etype2

Congratulations on the opening of the Broadcast Engineering Museum!

I wonder if you or others could shed more light on the experimental close circuit Chromatron color telecast of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation. .......

Thank you.

I don't know any more than you have said about the closed circuit colour televising of the Coronation.

There were a number of "on air" colour tests from Alexandra Palace in the 1950s and 1960s. These variously used 405 line NTSC and 625 line NTSC. In the UK and Europe we had the good fortune to start colour TV after the Plumbicon tube made it possible to design reasonably compact cameras.

[Alex KL-1]

Congratulations!! Happy to see pieces of history being preserved (along with history itself)! Great initiative!