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...tubes.* There was no blurring or running of colors, even in the fastest movement, e.g., a pair of performing lovebirds flapping their wings. As a show topper, an RCA mobile unit focused on a swimming pool near New York where a troupe of swimmers and divers performed. The outdoor telecast, which RCA explained could just as well be a football game or boxing match, came through almost as clearly as the studio show...
...millions of TV set owners in the U.S., only a few thousand were able to see "the world's first commercial color telecast" last week. Some were specially invited guests who saw the show on CBS colorsets provided in studios in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. The others were the 1,000 or so ingenious set owners who had built their own adapters and converters for as little as 30? apiece (TIME...
Movie theater owners, who have also been suffering from TV competition, had their own cheering section. Though not telecast over the air, the Louis-Savold fight was experimentally piped by coaxial cable over closed circuits to six cities, shown on eight theater TV screens at prices ranging from 64? to $1.30. More than 22,000 customers saw the show and every theater had a full house. In Baltimore, S.R.O. signs were up an hour before the fight began...
Royal Playhouse (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., Du Mont) opened with a filmed TV drama admittedly "contrived" from Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost. Not admitted on the show was another interesting contrivance: all the filmed dramas scheduled for Royal Playhouse have already been telecast during the past two years on NBC's successful Fireside Theater. Commercials: filmed blurbs for Du Mont TV sets...
During TIME'S telecast of the Kefauver committee hearings, Correspondent Frank McNaughton, who gave televiewers background on the testimony, received letters asking what private citizens could do to keep the committee from dying as scheduled. McNaughton reminded them that Washington still reads and counts its mail...