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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
I knew that it was 1966, but why so late?
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The Oscar statuettes were colored light blue instead of gold color before 1966, and nobody wanted that fact to be known. In B&W, it would look the same.
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(I'm just joking here!
There was a somewhat related story dating back to the development days of NTSC. In a studio, there was a prototype NTSC TV camera, and a bowl of fruit. Some joker took the bananas and spray painted them a light blue color (which would be the hue of banana color 180 degrees out of phase). The person at a receiving lab couldn't understand why he couldn't get all the fruit to come out with the right colors. He'd set the hue to get the bananas "right" but the apples and oranges and such came out wrong...