Bright signals a history of color television
First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all three networks in the 1960s, color television was...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham
Duke University Press
2018, 2018
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| Series: | Sign, storage, transmission
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- "And now: Color" : early color systems
- Natural vision versus "tele-vision" : defining and standardizing color
- Color adjustments : experiments, calibrations, and color training, 1950-1955
- Colortown, USA : expansion, stabilization, and promotion, 1955-1959
- The wonderful world of color : network programming and the spectacular real, 1960-1965
- At the end of the rainbow : global expansion, the space race, and the Cold War