1961 NBC "Tinted" Color Programming?

[Leslie]

Originally Posted by holmesuser01

My first TV job: An independent station in a southern city.

Sometimes, we were amazed that the transmitter was still running at the end of the day.

When the studio to transmitter microwave link would go down, I'd run tapes out to the transmitter site, start the tapes and the engineer would switch from the stand by slide to the tape. I loved seeing stuff I copied on the air.

The station paid me to spot check features before air time. So, every night, I'd take usually 2 features home and screen them with my Pageant AV-255S built in 1959. I had a long living room-dining room, and it was a perfect 10 foot image on a smooth white wall!!

When I worked there, 90% of programming was film. 6AM to 2AM. There were two of us doing film inspections.

My boss was a photographic genius. He taught me. It sunk in. Here I am.

Thats the book.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program, on NBC

We could have used you here in Chicago during the sixties. Our first UHF station used to run "Our Miss Brooks" and "December Bride" back-to-back, from 16mm prints. Once, the "Bride" print had the middle and end sequences mixed-up on the reel. Apparently no one inspected that print. Also, you could hear the projector clacking away while the muddy sound came through, as though a mic had been placed by the projector speaker. (That was a standard feature of that station). Does anyone remember "Science Fiction Theater"? that show , in it's first season, had the introduction (by Truman Bradley) and the closing in black-and-white, while the main story was presented in color. In the second season, the show was completely black-and-white.