OT: An NBC Presentation In Incompatible Color?

[Jeffrey J Martin]

That graphic ran at the end of Ernie Kovacs's 1957 "silent" special on NBC,
and yes, was meant as a joke. The show exists as a color kinescope, the DVD
release includes that peacock.

Best,

Jeff Martin
Archival Moving Image Consulting
Chicago, IL

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:02 PM, <quadlist-request at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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>    1. Re: OT: An NBC Presentation In Incompatible Color? (Joe Owens)
>    2. Re: OT: An NBC Presentation In Incompatible Color?
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> From: Joe Owens <jpo at prestodigital.ca>
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> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:16:25 -0600
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] OT: An NBC Presentation In Incompatible Color?
> Maybe they received a bad format conversion too late to fix it for
> broadcast?  Chroma was in R-Y/B-Y instead of YIQ?
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> On 2015-06-19, at 11:41 AM, Bob Bell via QuadList wrote:
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> Excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know when and why NBC would have used
> the attached tag on an NBC-TV presentation.
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> Joe Owens
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> Cc: Bob Bell <mrbobbell at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:02:19 -0700
> Subject: Re: [QuadList] OT: An NBC Presentation In Incompatible Color?
> Good question. A joke perhaps???
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> Here is the announcement for compatible color:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJCJIaDp9Q
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> Airing during Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows", NBC spokesman Richard
> Harkness announced that RCA had won the "compatible color television"
> standards fight over the competing CBS format and that color TVs would soon
> be available for purchase.
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> On Jun 19, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Bob Bell via QuadList <
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> *From: *Bob Bell <mrbobbell at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **OT: An NBC Presentation In Incompatible Color?*
> *Date: *June 19, 2015 at 10:41:23 AM PDT
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>  Excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know when and why NBC would have
> used the attached tag on an NBC-TV presentation.
>
> "An NBC Presentation In Incompatible Color"
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> Source: http://oldshowbiz.tumblr.com/post/121783466424/incompatible-color
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> Bob Bell
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