Word: colorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles de Gaulle opened the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, last week, ABC-TV pulled off a display of space-age electronic wizardry that was right out of Star Trek. The dour visage of le grand Charles picked up by the color cameras was fed to a control unit at the Olympic stadium, beamed to ABC headquarters in Grenoble, relayed by cable to Paris, and then to the French satellite ground station at Plumeur-Bodou. There the video signal was converted into a radio signal, bounced off the Early Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic...
...color telecast represented the first time that the Olympics have been beamed live between continents. The 27 hours of programming, scheduled for this week as well, is the most extensive coverage ever devoted to any sporting event; in terms of logistics alone, it is the most complex and comprehensive effort any network has ever expended on an event, including space shots, the war in Viet Nam, and national political conventions...
...from $50,000 in 1960). Ever since then, ABC engineers have been skittering across the slopes of the Alps like spiders, spinning out a 40-mile web of cables. With the help of helicopters, snowcats and a detachment from the French army, they swaddled the 350-lb. color cameras in heated jackets and positioned them on rocky precipices as high as 7,400 feet...
There's only one problem. The endorsement, which the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association has given in return for royalties, does not mean quite what it says. "As far as the Davis Cup team is concerned," says U.S.L.T.A. President Robert J. Kelleher, "the color of their clothes will be up to their captain." Moreover, many U.S. tennis clubs back up the longstanding tradition that "whites are right" with written bylaws that specifically prohibit color from their courts...
Meanwhile, Australians John Newcombe and Tony Roche, together with six other members of Dave Dixon's professional World Championship Tennis Inc., began a six-month tour in Kansas City, Mo., last week garbed in gaudy green, yellow, blue and red shirts, some with socks to match. "Color is good and correct for tennis," insists Dixon. "In fact, today white looks washed out and bush league." Surprisingly, the argument is gaining support, even in traditional circles. Says Walter Elcock, president of Brookline's Longwood Cricket Club, where players have worn only whites since 1877: "So many changes are being...