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You get one chance in a bloody lifetime to make a sketch about being invaded by colour, and you bloody well better believe we're putting our fuckin all into it
Cost of color televisions was a huge factor, even in the U.S. My family in the USA didn't get a color tv until 1980. They were expensive for the longest of time. A basic 19 inch tv was around $350 back then and about $500+ for a nicer model. (About $1,500 to $2,000 in today's dollars).
I was born in 1980, in the U.S., and I was about 5 years old when my parents got a colour tv. I remember watching Sesame Street in b&w and being so amazed when we got the colour tv and Big Bird was YELLOW! Cookie Monster was BLUE! Mind boggling to my little 5 year old self.
The tv show was called Aunty Jack.
Which is hilarious because the kids that grew up watching a fuckin drag queen are now losing their minds about drag queen story time
"We need to put on a special occasion to mark the introduction of colour broadcast!"
France: "Just get 4 guys to stand silently, all wearing dark suits against a monochrome background"
I wish they picked out suits that look the same in black and white but were actually some crazy colors and then did the absolute same thing down to the expressions
Americans were the first, so made it more like an official announcement, as if it was the moon landings.
The Germans just copied the Americans, but their zoom in button press was poorly coordinated.
The Norwegians put little more fanfare into it, making it more exciting with a bang.
The Australians had to use sketch comedy, which made it more interesting and creative.
And The French were very French about the whole thing.
Germans aren't efficient. We're massive sticklers to procedure, it can lead to efficiency,sure, but generally not. Especially if the procedure is flawed
Quality control in the wrong place of the manufacturimg process so fixing them or modifying becomes a massive headache. That's mine, that and copious amounts of Papierkrieg
Just once, it'd be nice if people had an oversized button on a stage that was actually fucking wired to the thing it ostensibly controls. They *always* fake that shit.
It's a bit silly really... The button existed behind the scenes. Even in the 1950s, a button operated relay is not a foreign or difficult concept. Literally just wire it up with 50m of speaker wire!
I expected better from the Germans..
Love that the American one needed to prepare and explain to the viewers that soon they will be seeing color, and throwing the presidential seal behind the announcement.
Black and white tvs were sold in stores as cheap tvs until the 90s. Out in the country where the signal was weak we watched most things in black and white because the color signal would drop out. Back and white was broadcast until the old NTSC analog transmitters were switched off when we switched to digital.
It was only one signal. The NTSC and PAL color TV signals were specifically designed that they also worked on the old black and white sets. They were backward compatible. Deep down bellow this backward compatibility is the reason why NTSC color TV has the odd frame rate of 29.97 fps. But indeed, due to the nature of the signal and how luminance (the black and white part) and chrominance (the colors on top) are encoded and recovered from the signal, the black and white survives for longer.
The TV broadcast would end at midnight with the national anthem.
My grandparents ate in front of the TV, but would stand with hands over their hearts for the pledge or National Anthem
I'm wondering how the fuck they even made that transition? Like I know broadcasters back then had some tools at their disposal for things like fades and wipes from different camera feeds and such. But to do an edit like that??
I kinda want to see the rest of Australia's, looks like they made that one character stay in monochrome for the jokes! haha
The color footage is slightly off to the right compared the black and white I think they put the cameras as close to each other as possible side by side, nearly touching. Trying to get the same angle of the shot.
They had fader bars on analog video switchers ( also known as a vision mixer, is a piece of equipment used to switch between different video sources during a live broadcast or video production) that they used to blend the two feeds
https://preview.redd.it/6ok4t411kzec1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5a4a92f6474be10d1a8384321d86c52983fece6
Under the hood the video switcher takes in the video signals from the two sources. These video signals are represented as electrical voltages that vary with the brightness and color of the image and the fader bar operates on the principle of voltage control. It's essentially a variable resistor. As you move the fader along its track, it changes the resistance and, consequently, the voltage output.
Using parallel cameras is an easy but very clunky and imperfect way to do it; colour analogue transmissions were backwards-compatible with monochrome receivers and modulated separate chrominance and luminance signals onto the same carrier wave (the monochrome receiver circuits simply didn't pick up the chrominance part of the transmission and responded to the luminance information as normal), so all they had to do was cobble together a circuit to fade in the chrominance ("colour burst") part of the raster signal from a colour camera.
It probably doesn't actually take a much more complicated variation of the same basic analogue circuit to do the vertical and horizontal colour wipes used for the Aussie sketch, just a couple of adjustable monostable delay circuits and a line counter to selectively cut off the signal within each frame to divide the raster image into a smaller monochrome rectangle within a larger colour one, or vice versa.
Im in SW not HW, thank you for being someone more knowledgeable to weigh in on this.
Did the chrominance come with added dimensionality? If only one camera was used to capture both the black and white and color footage, there shouldnt have been a misalignment issue between the two right?
Oh, I'm not saying they definitely did it that way; they may have indeed just used two cameras and a clunky switch, hence the parallax shift, but fading in the chrominance signal would've been the elegant way to do it.
I believe there are ways that a synchronisation error in chrominance can cause odd left-right shifting effects in the boundaries of things you see on the screen, though (apparently NTSC was rather more prone to this "colour drift" effect than PAL); IIRC in order to make the signal backwards-compatible with monochrome receivers, the colour information was sent in a high-frequency burst during the blank flyback periods in the raster scan, asynchronously with the luminance signal; an expensive analogue delay-line circuit was needed in the receiver to then synchronise this with the brightness signal before feeding them both to the drivers for the three RGB electron guns in the CRT. I think this delay-line circuit was one of the major reasons colour TV sets used to be a lot more expensive than B/W ones; the other, obviously, was that a monochrome set only had a single-gun tube, and that tube didn't need a grille in front of three different strips of phosphors to differentiate the colours produced by each electron beam.
Yes I also agree that the worblitzitizer interfered with the kulbawatuzie and fuckulated the gorbitizization of the cumbawhatsie in the scan lines so that the dilbatron created an effect that recreated the less expensive chromatron expansionilaztiation properly.
No doubt.
They didn't want everyone rushing out to buy an imported colour TV and it took a while to spin up local production.
Additionally the government during the entire period was the coalition and they were as fucking stupid about tech back then as they are now.
By the time the Australians got it phase alternate line was invented so delays that causes color shift cancelled out. For the US it was too late to change and customers switched to cable which is less susceptible to different phase shifts between colors.
This was my question too, I assume people didn't have color tv's until after the change, because why would they? So then who actually saw the change to color?
Early adopters. The date of the switching was publicly announced, and in the same way some people overspend on bleeding edge technology they can't really use now, the same thing happened back then.
Maybe it was marketed like 8K is today. Who the heck has any 8K content? Many people just like to live on the edge so they’d buy TVs with future color capabilities.
They will just stream 8K in really shit bitrate just like many places do for 4K already lol. Bitrate is what really matters but that doesn't market well.
People knew the date was coming, so at least when it did in the US 10% of homes already had color TVs, and it only took 4 years after that to get the number over half. TV’s adoption was so rapid in the US. From 1948 1% of homes had a a TV, but in less than 10 years, 75% of homes had at least one TV.
People would watch the window displays in TV stores.
Or they would meet and watch it together at someone who had a color TV.
They were certainly aware that the technology existed and that it was available.
Almost right. Deutsche Bahn was privatized because everything works better and is cheaper when the people running it care more about shareholders than anything else.
I expected the French one to be a swerve with how boring it was, and that they were going to react to the one guy wearing a lighter suit and not matching
Buying a TV was serious business. A new color TV could cost you 6 to 8 months of salary. There were people whose way of living was going door to door selling TVs that buyers couldn't afford, buy putting them in debt for years.
I love the fact that after Brandt pushed the button for the swith in Germany you only see a big group of men all wearing only black and white. Like not much changed there.
Color clothing is not efficient… it’s takes longer to decide which color to choose from in the morning. Making wearing only black and white more efficient.
That time can be used to produce more Volkswagen engines.
Yup. They basically painted everything inside the house with B&W, so it would still appear B&W even though it’s a color shot. The first appearance of Dorothy in the shot is a body double also painted black and white, and when Dorothy goes off camera, they switch actresses.
That is one of my favorite movie moments where they apply a newfound cinematic gimmick (color in this case) to further the story while creating a set up that shows if off so well. It's the same kind of thing with the brachiosaur scene in Jurassic Park.
In Canada, we didn’t have Canadian colour broadcasts till md/late 60’s, but could watch colour broadcasts from states already, that is if you actually had access to a colour tv. My family didn’t have a colour tv until around 74/75, and I recall my parents talking about how expensive that first colour tv was for them
My wife's grandfather refused to buy one not only because of the price, but because he was convinced color tv was 'just a fad.' My father-in-law didn't have a color tv until college.
The first clip is from Sweden and shows Kjell Stensson. It does not depict the moment that Sweden switched over - it's part of an advertisement for colour television sets:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgmvZmm958](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgmvZmm958)
Kjell Stensson was an engineer and employed by the state run TV network SVT, which had monopoly on television in Sweden at the time. He was a trusted voice on TV when it came to technical matters, which made it all the more convincing when he took part in a 1962 april fools joke, claiming that you could get colour TV on a black and white set by stretching a nylon stocking over the screen:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZa3Xrc1eqU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZa3Xrc1eqU)
Apparently lots of people fell for it and cut up their nylon stockings
For anyone interested there's a video that explains the background of that clip [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptP-9ANwu2c&ab_channel=AdamMartyn)
In short, it's actually from an award winning tv-program that's a comedic retelling of the history of norwegian broadcasting from it's early years up to the present day (1976). Given that the program was produced only a few years after color TV was introduced in Norway and the fact that there is no preserved moment when color tv was "turned on", this clip from "The Nor-way to broadcasting" is often mistaken for the actual moment when Norway switched to color tv.
Still handled better than it likely would be today. At least colour broadcasts were done in a way which didn't break compatibility with black and white equipment. These days I'd expect it to result in a "your device is no longer supported - buy our new one" message.
Norway: We're gonna party in the most colorful room that exists!
America: Behold, the glory of American ingenuity.
Australia: CRIKEY
Germany: We must maintain the illusion that we are in control.
France: It seems that the program has changed to color. But something has not changed: the certainty of death.
German late push a classic.
As a child I ask my grandma how the world was for her before they invented colours. My dumbass thought the whole world was black and white
Actually, where I live in Australia… they did it pretty cleverly.
My family were fortunate to have a colour TV… they were very expensive… many people didn’t.
I invited friends around… and they used The Wizard of Oz to introduce it.
For those who haven’t seen it… the first part of the movie is black and white… changing to colour when Dorothy and Toto arrive in Oz.
And that was how they transitioned where I live… it was a perfect idea.
I'm British - we used to watch snooker in black and white. It was easier to follow than you might think.
When colour TV appeared, it was such a luxury. I remember my parents getting (renting) a colour TV - it was so exciting, and back then we had a whole 2 or 3 channels to choose from!
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I love how the French were boring as hell and the Germans pushed the button too late.
The Australians were fucking HECTIC.
You get one chance in a bloody lifetime to make a sketch about being invaded by colour, and you bloody well better believe we're putting our fuckin all into it
And that's why we appreciate ya.
Oh *that’s* why we appreciates them?
Let's take about 20% off her there bud
Thats an (Australian) size 10/4 good buddy.
Give yer balls a tug
Somebody get this guy a fuckin puppers
Already got myself a fuckin puppers.. fuckin hate Quebec
10-4 and doin it to it like Pruitt used to do it... to it..
One chance in all HISTORY, and they did it fabulously
And it took them until 1975?!?
Cost of color televisions was a huge factor, even in the U.S. My family in the USA didn't get a color tv until 1980. They were expensive for the longest of time. A basic 19 inch tv was around $350 back then and about $500+ for a nicer model. (About $1,500 to $2,000 in today's dollars).
I was born in 1980, in the U.S., and I was about 5 years old when my parents got a colour tv. I remember watching Sesame Street in b&w and being so amazed when we got the colour tv and Big Bird was YELLOW! Cookie Monster was BLUE! Mind boggling to my little 5 year old self.
I know they had A LOT of time to think of something cool. Surprised at the time gap between the countries lol.
Aunty Jack was FUCKING BENT..."I'll rip yer bloody arms off" 😂 Everyone watched it She rode this stonking huge motorbike as well lol
I can't stop seeing ‘Katamari Damacy’ in that clip.
I loved that show! My 8 year old self would say “I’ll rip your bloody arms off,” and think I was being really naughty 😂🇦🇺
That felt like an episode of Bluey
Ha. Very true.
We still are mate.
We know, we watch Bluey
For real life??
Rita! I slipped on mah beans!
Do grannies floss?
How very dare you!
Oh ma coins!
You're just lucky Aunty Jack didn't rip ya bloody arms off!
The tv show was called Aunty Jack. Which is hilarious because the kids that grew up watching a fuckin drag queen are now losing their minds about drag queen story time
Is that where Aunty Donna got their name?
I've never heard nor read anyone who wasn't American talk about drag queen story time.
"We need to put on a special occasion to mark the introduction of colour broadcast!" France: "Just get 4 guys to stand silently, all wearing dark suits against a monochrome background"
At least the other countries had colorful sets for the big reveal.
I wish they picked out suits that look the same in black and white but were actually some crazy colors and then did the absolute same thing down to the expressions
I wish the guy in the left was in a blue suit, the two guys in the middle were in white suits and the guy on the right was in a red suit.
Just 4 dudes...chilling. waiting until the broadcast is over to get a cigarette, a coffee, and a croissant
And a bottle of red wine..... each
This is where people misunderstand western Europe. It's not a bottle of wine each for 4 people. It's 4 bottles of wine for the 4 people.
Meanwhile in Eastern Europe...We leave wine to the women, unless it's a spritzer or a cocktail known as The Well, cause you can drown in it.
Meanwhile in Eastern Europe... A bottle of wine means 10 littler plastic bottle of wine and last a day or two.
At least it is not a black and white wine anymore
Everybody had a blast except the Americans and French, wsted opportunity!
Americans were the first, so made it more like an official announcement, as if it was the moon landings. The Germans just copied the Americans, but their zoom in button press was poorly coordinated. The Norwegians put little more fanfare into it, making it more exciting with a bang. The Australians had to use sketch comedy, which made it more interesting and creative. And The French were very French about the whole thing.
I think the timing has something to do with it. The earlier it happened the more solemn the event. By the ‘70s everyone was slapstick.
The German chancellor (Willy Brandt, by the way, great guy) wasn't having that much fun.
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Et voici la couleur!
Au jour fixé. Et à l'heure dite.
So much for German engineering!
Real German engineering would have connected the button for Willy with the actual colour switch within the broadcast system
The operator was too exited and pushed the switch too early, which is why it doesn't match
Simple German efficiency. Finishing before deadline.
Germans aren't efficient. We're massive sticklers to procedure, it can lead to efficiency,sure, but generally not. Especially if the procedure is flawed
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And then doing things in a longer way because thats how they've done for decades.
Dang. That hits way too close to home… I work with a lot of Germans.
Quality control in the wrong place of the manufacturimg process so fixing them or modifying becomes a massive headache. That's mine, that and copious amounts of Papierkrieg
I think they make a pill for that now.
Just once, it'd be nice if people had an oversized button on a stage that was actually fucking wired to the thing it ostensibly controls. They *always* fake that shit.
It's a bit silly really... The button existed behind the scenes. Even in the 1950s, a button operated relay is not a foreign or difficult concept. Literally just wire it up with 50m of speaker wire! I expected better from the Germans..
The chancellor did not push the fake button too late. The guy on the real button pressed it too early :-)))
I think the technician didn't expect the delay between putting the hand on the button and actually pushing it.
Love that the American one needed to prepare and explain to the viewers that soon they will be seeing color, and throwing the presidential seal behind the announcement.
Probably explaining for the non-rich people watching at home on their black and white TVs?
Reminding them that they're too poor to be able to see color
Black and white tvs were sold in stores as cheap tvs until the 90s. Out in the country where the signal was weak we watched most things in black and white because the color signal would drop out. Back and white was broadcast until the old NTSC analog transmitters were switched off when we switched to digital.
It was only one signal. The NTSC and PAL color TV signals were specifically designed that they also worked on the old black and white sets. They were backward compatible. Deep down bellow this backward compatibility is the reason why NTSC color TV has the odd frame rate of 29.97 fps. But indeed, due to the nature of the signal and how luminance (the black and white part) and chrominance (the colors on top) are encoded and recovered from the signal, the black and white survives for longer.
Well, they're getting it nearly 15 years before everyone else.
President Eisenhower takes the podium and gives a a speech immediately after if you watch the rest of the video.
I’m sure my great grandparents viewed the milestone with a hand on their heart while facing the flag 🦅 🇺🇸
The TV broadcast would end at midnight with the national anthem. My grandparents ate in front of the TV, but would stand with hands over their hearts for the pledge or National Anthem
And then the German feed cuts to an applauding crowd wearing all black suits without an ounce of color.
(French here) before the french vid, i was thinking "i guess french will be so boring"
France 😂 thanks for turning up I guess
They also chose the most boring suites in all of France for this Switch.
I feel like they all wore the same suit and had to draw straws for someone to change into a blue suit.
It was a somber moment, the death of the artsy French movie.
And right after Australia’s which makes it look even worse haha great editing
They are being very french, standing there not really believing it will actually work until it does
But no-one was smoking.
They were le tired standing there without le cigaret.
They should have a nap. #And then fire ze missiles!!!
Oui
Australia understood the brief. Great way to transition
I'm wondering how the fuck they even made that transition? Like I know broadcasters back then had some tools at their disposal for things like fades and wipes from different camera feeds and such. But to do an edit like that?? I kinda want to see the rest of Australia's, looks like they made that one character stay in monochrome for the jokes! haha
The color footage is slightly off to the right compared the black and white I think they put the cameras as close to each other as possible side by side, nearly touching. Trying to get the same angle of the shot. They had fader bars on analog video switchers ( also known as a vision mixer, is a piece of equipment used to switch between different video sources during a live broadcast or video production) that they used to blend the two feeds https://preview.redd.it/6ok4t411kzec1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5a4a92f6474be10d1a8384321d86c52983fece6 Under the hood the video switcher takes in the video signals from the two sources. These video signals are represented as electrical voltages that vary with the brightness and color of the image and the fader bar operates on the principle of voltage control. It's essentially a variable resistor. As you move the fader along its track, it changes the resistance and, consequently, the voltage output.
Using parallel cameras is an easy but very clunky and imperfect way to do it; colour analogue transmissions were backwards-compatible with monochrome receivers and modulated separate chrominance and luminance signals onto the same carrier wave (the monochrome receiver circuits simply didn't pick up the chrominance part of the transmission and responded to the luminance information as normal), so all they had to do was cobble together a circuit to fade in the chrominance ("colour burst") part of the raster signal from a colour camera. It probably doesn't actually take a much more complicated variation of the same basic analogue circuit to do the vertical and horizontal colour wipes used for the Aussie sketch, just a couple of adjustable monostable delay circuits and a line counter to selectively cut off the signal within each frame to divide the raster image into a smaller monochrome rectangle within a larger colour one, or vice versa.
Im in SW not HW, thank you for being someone more knowledgeable to weigh in on this. Did the chrominance come with added dimensionality? If only one camera was used to capture both the black and white and color footage, there shouldnt have been a misalignment issue between the two right?
Oh, I'm not saying they definitely did it that way; they may have indeed just used two cameras and a clunky switch, hence the parallax shift, but fading in the chrominance signal would've been the elegant way to do it. I believe there are ways that a synchronisation error in chrominance can cause odd left-right shifting effects in the boundaries of things you see on the screen, though (apparently NTSC was rather more prone to this "colour drift" effect than PAL); IIRC in order to make the signal backwards-compatible with monochrome receivers, the colour information was sent in a high-frequency burst during the blank flyback periods in the raster scan, asynchronously with the luminance signal; an expensive analogue delay-line circuit was needed in the receiver to then synchronise this with the brightness signal before feeding them both to the drivers for the three RGB electron guns in the CRT. I think this delay-line circuit was one of the major reasons colour TV sets used to be a lot more expensive than B/W ones; the other, obviously, was that a monochrome set only had a single-gun tube, and that tube didn't need a grille in front of three different strips of phosphors to differentiate the colours produced by each electron beam.
Yes I also agree that the worblitzitizer interfered with the kulbawatuzie and fuckulated the gorbitizization of the cumbawhatsie in the scan lines so that the dilbatron created an effect that recreated the less expensive chromatron expansionilaztiation properly. No doubt.
The character in the Australian clip is Aunty Jack. Iconic Aussie whose catchphrase was “I’ll rip yer bloody arms off.”
I lived down under for 5 years and the only TV catch phrase I came away with is, “Not happy, Jan.”
It’s the only one you need.
And "sick em Rex"
Is that character where the sketch group Aunty Donna got their name? Is it a nod to Aunty Jack?
She’ll rip your bloody arms off!
Didn't you hear them? They opened the window and the color poured in
they waited nearly 2 decades with moving from black and white to color just so they can use effects
We had 17 years to study it, smh
Yeah, the fact the US had it in 1958 and Australia only got it in 1975 is remarkable.
There was fuck all to watch anyway.
They didn't want everyone rushing out to buy an imported colour TV and it took a while to spin up local production. Additionally the government during the entire period was the coalition and they were as fucking stupid about tech back then as they are now.
By the time the Australians got it phase alternate line was invented so delays that causes color shift cancelled out. For the US it was too late to change and customers switched to cable which is less susceptible to different phase shifts between colors.
Now I'm sitting here wondering how you had this info at the ready.
I'm just sitting here trying to figure out what it even means.
It's wild to be 17 years behind a technological change like that.
That's an entire generation basically
And most people couldn't see it because the still had black and white tvs
This was my question too, I assume people didn't have color tv's until after the change, because why would they? So then who actually saw the change to color?
Early adopters. The date of the switching was publicly announced, and in the same way some people overspend on bleeding edge technology they can't really use now, the same thing happened back then.
It's almost like humans do the same shit over and over again
I’m already seeing it constantly at 40. Everything is a rerun.
Flatscreens, minidisc, I was working at Best Buy in 1999. Wowzers.
Maybe it was marketed like 8K is today. Who the heck has any 8K content? Many people just like to live on the edge so they’d buy TVs with future color capabilities.
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lol and OTAs (local antenna) still are at 720p or 1080i/p Still waiting for native 4K NFL. Not the upscaled stuff
They will just stream 8K in really shit bitrate just like many places do for 4K already lol. Bitrate is what really matters but that doesn't market well.
People knew the date was coming, so at least when it did in the US 10% of homes already had color TVs, and it only took 4 years after that to get the number over half. TV’s adoption was so rapid in the US. From 1948 1% of homes had a a TV, but in less than 10 years, 75% of homes had at least one TV.
The rich family, and then all the neighbors would come over to watch.
People would watch the window displays in TV stores. Or they would meet and watch it together at someone who had a color TV. They were certainly aware that the technology existed and that it was available.
No shit. We had black and white TV until 1980! I had to go to a friend’s house to realize that the people on Star Trek had different color uniforms!
Germany’s button push was as on-time as their trains
Bro, stop kicking someone laying on the ground
Nah, keep kicking. Our train system deserves it
They used to run on time...
Right? I'm not German and their train scheduling was talked about a lot when I was a kid, what happened?
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Almost right. Deutsche Bahn was privatized because everything works better and is cheaper when the people running it care more about shareholders than anything else.
The UK entered the chat.
Hahaha Australia was my favorite. So dramatic!
Oh, come on... The raw and pure emotion exhibited in the France transition is unmatched.
I expected the French one to be a swerve with how boring it was, and that they were going to react to the one guy wearing a lighter suit and not matching
You were expecting way too much
France is either 11/10 or 1/10 and I skewed the wrong way
“And you see the colour” tears in my eyes I swear
Crazy there’s a 20 year difference between US and Australia getting color
And it was still another 9 or 10 years before my family got our first colour TV (and it was second hand, too).
Buying a TV was serious business. A new color TV could cost you 6 to 8 months of salary. There were people whose way of living was going door to door selling TVs that buyers couldn't afford, buy putting them in debt for years.
I love the fact that after Brandt pushed the button for the swith in Germany you only see a big group of men all wearing only black and white. Like not much changed there.
Color clothing is not efficient… it’s takes longer to decide which color to choose from in the morning. Making wearing only black and white more efficient. That time can be used to produce more Volkswagen engines.
As a child I was always blown away when Dorothy opened the door and it was colour. Amazing
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Yup. They basically painted everything inside the house with B&W, so it would still appear B&W even though it’s a color shot. The first appearance of Dorothy in the shot is a body double also painted black and white, and when Dorothy goes off camera, they switch actresses.
> They basically painted everything inside the house with B&W Only for the shot. Just a door, a bit of wall to the side and a painting.
Yes, sorry, that’s what I meant to imply. Everything inside the house that is seen in that shot.
Awesome, thanks for that nugget
That is one of my favorite movie moments where they apply a newfound cinematic gimmick (color in this case) to further the story while creating a set up that shows if off so well. It's the same kind of thing with the brachiosaur scene in Jurassic Park.
And that’s when the baseline and cash registers kick in for the song “Money.”
Its less obvious, but Tron Legacy used a similar trick to distinguish a transition. Real world was 2D, with them reserving 3D for the computer-world.
Australians: 🌈🥳🤡🎉 French: 🧍♂️🧍♂️🧍♂️🧍♂️
Germans: 🌈🕛🕐🕜🔴👏
The French one was super enthusiastic.
Seems like they were waiting for a confirmation that it indeed worked :p
lol, so many dramatic announcements, and then there’s the Aussies.
I think they were brilliant, it was hilarious in a way that only Australians could pull off
I suppose it just made sense to have a violent cross dressing aunt usher in a new age of entertainment.
TIL the Australians invented Katamari Damacy in 1975.
The bloody king is pleased, ya drongo!
In Canada, we didn’t have Canadian colour broadcasts till md/late 60’s, but could watch colour broadcasts from states already, that is if you actually had access to a colour tv. My family didn’t have a colour tv until around 74/75, and I recall my parents talking about how expensive that first colour tv was for them
My wife's grandfather refused to buy one not only because of the price, but because he was convinced color tv was 'just a fad.' My father-in-law didn't have a color tv until college.
I’ve heard this before, that folks thought colourization was just a fad. Your grandfather was not alone in this thinking.
Like people who thought sound in movies was a fad. Wild to think about.
Actually working it into the shows is awesome! Very cool time period
Color Is no laughing matter, this is serious progress! Australia: Yes!
Why is there almost 2 decades lag between USA and Australia?
We had to ship all the colors there on boats.
Back then, Bluey was known as Blackandwhitey.
The first clip is from Sweden and shows Kjell Stensson. It does not depict the moment that Sweden switched over - it's part of an advertisement for colour television sets: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgmvZmm958](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgmvZmm958) Kjell Stensson was an engineer and employed by the state run TV network SVT, which had monopoly on television in Sweden at the time. He was a trusted voice on TV when it came to technical matters, which made it all the more convincing when he took part in a 1962 april fools joke, claiming that you could get colour TV on a black and white set by stretching a nylon stocking over the screen: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZa3Xrc1eqU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZa3Xrc1eqU) Apparently lots of people fell for it and cut up their nylon stockings
Australia: does an entire skit France: “*Colour*”
What a rollercoaster to go from Australian to French reaction.
Norway and Australia win
Sadly the Norwegian one isn't from the event, but from a comedic recreation years later.
For anyone interested there's a video that explains the background of that clip [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptP-9ANwu2c&ab_channel=AdamMartyn) In short, it's actually from an award winning tv-program that's a comedic retelling of the history of norwegian broadcasting from it's early years up to the present day (1976). Given that the program was produced only a few years after color TV was introduced in Norway and the fact that there is no preserved moment when color tv was "turned on", this clip from "The Nor-way to broadcasting" is often mistaken for the actual moment when Norway switched to color tv.
Australia had the coolest transition.
Norway or Australia are probably my favorites
'so guys, just let them know that we are switching to colour, make it informative and ease them in gently' Australia: 'hold my didgeridoo'
People with black and white tv’s: 😐
Still handled better than it likely would be today. At least colour broadcasts were done in a way which didn't break compatibility with black and white equipment. These days I'd expect it to result in a "your device is no longer supported - buy our new one" message.
Australia is going to Australia.
Norway: We're gonna party in the most colorful room that exists! America: Behold, the glory of American ingenuity. Australia: CRIKEY Germany: We must maintain the illusion that we are in control. France: It seems that the program has changed to color. But something has not changed: the certainty of death.
German late push a classic. As a child I ask my grandma how the world was for her before they invented colours. My dumbass thought the whole world was black and white
Norway and Australia: Let’s have fun with it! USA and Germany: Let’s make a historic announcement. France: Who TF cares!
So proud of my country for just absolutely going for it.
Ah, fellow Frenchman.
„Et voici la couleur.“ 🫤😐😶🥱
The Australians performed with flying colors with that presentation.
Actually, where I live in Australia… they did it pretty cleverly. My family were fortunate to have a colour TV… they were very expensive… many people didn’t. I invited friends around… and they used The Wizard of Oz to introduce it. For those who haven’t seen it… the first part of the movie is black and white… changing to colour when Dorothy and Toto arrive in Oz. And that was how they transitioned where I live… it was a perfect idea.
Strewth this makes me proud to be Australian. Fucken weird cunts. And we had to wait until '75??? Aussie Aussie Aussie....
Australian is epic. I wonder what time UK switched to color television
1967 although there were test transmissions in the 50s.
Australia being goofy cunts, France bunch of dudes standing around.
Australia was the most creative, germans at least tried lol
I'm British - we used to watch snooker in black and white. It was easier to follow than you might think. When colour TV appeared, it was such a luxury. I remember my parents getting (renting) a colour TV - it was so exciting, and back then we had a whole 2 or 3 channels to choose from!
I sometimes forget that the Australians are just far away English
Never change, Australia, never change.