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Early color would make a good mini-series
With all the twists and turns, along with the power struggles amounst the network moguls, I think the story behind color television would make a great mini-series.
They say sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. All of the intrigue involed with the developement of color has all the ingrediants. The two egotistical heads, David sarnoff and William Palley from CBS. Along with all the other players who got left in the dust. What do you think?
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If they ever get The Farnsworth Invention into theaters, this might be the sequel.
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Outside of some poorly-remembered Life magazine ads from the 40's showing colored "confetti" explaining the concept of image dissection and transmission, I have never read or heard of color research by Philo Farnsworth and associates. Can anyone offer any information on this subject?
Kevin
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I read an entire book tracing the development of flat-screen (LCD/Plasma) televisions, by one of the key people in the development of that technology. I was surprised how far back it went; work in the labs preceded product releases by quite a few years.
That could have been/be made into a mini-series, too, as companies raced to develop technology and secure patents while also keeping secrets, blundering up dead ends, making risky financial bets, etc... but color TV was a much more interesting story because of the personalities involved; I hope one day someone does it. Heck, the early days of public transmission of electricity/power grids was interesting enough to make a show about. Thomas Edison originally promoted using DC current! A detailed bio-pic on the life of Nikola Tesla would also be good. Lots of interesting stories in the history of audio. [...or are they only interesting to audio nuts like us? ] |
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Hello Gentlemen,
Funny for this topic to just spring up now. I've been working on precisely this subject with a French TV director for the last year or so. The film's title is "Color Wars". We are in the process of actively scouting for a production company & getting a budget together. I have translated into English the 30 page synopsis to widen the selection of coproducers we are targeting. A project like this takes forever to take off in France, and we got the comment several times: "not enough French content" i.e. SECAM. We answer, well the US single-handledly developped color TV and had it in service a full 16 years before Europe! so there's much more of a story there. Concerning Henri de France & SECAM development, there is very little data, documents & footage. It's virtually as if the man never existed! Best Regards jhalphen |
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Sarnoff, Bill Paley, & Henri DeFrance are pretty interesting characters...I don't know if you could get a movie out of it, but an interesting History or Discovery program could be done out of it...Sure would beat seeing ANOTHER program about Hitler's left testicle or the JFK assasination...<grin>
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