Color cameras

[yagosaga]

Steve Dichter informed me that the DVD "Cole Porter - An All-Star Tribute (Bell Telephone Hour January 28, 1964)", availbale at Amazon, is a recording of a Jan. 1964 color telecast on NBC using TK-41 cameras. It was originally videotaped. Today I received this DVD. It is a great recording in video and content. I'm really surprised how good was the color quality already in the 1960s. With a high resolution tv set some video noise is visible, but I think this depends on the lower quality of the video tape in the early 1960s. Additional to that this DVD contains some bonus tracks in color with Ethel Merman on the Bell Telephone Hour from Jan. 29, 1960! On a rectanguar screen one can see the darker corners of the TK-41 picture. This is really exciting!