Sarah Connor reported unconcerned about cut-rate Dalek
Thursday 18 March 2010
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Sarah Connor reported unconcerned about cut-rate Dalek
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Sarah Connor reported unconcerned about cut-rate Dalek
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If that "blinky" color thing is to be believed, that may be the answer to a mystery that's plagued me since the 1960s.
In 1963 WAGA TV in Atlanta ran ads for what they claimed would be the ability to see "color on a black and white tv". I'm guessing it was the same thing shown by the BBC in the clip.
At least it's a likely explanation.
About the second segment...
It's the optical illusion used by the “Benham Disk”.
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_benham/index.html
Decades ago I drew one on one of the reels of my reel2reel recorder and when it was in rewind I got a deep blue!
PS:
MUST... DRINK... ZIP...
Thanks much for pointing out that link! I would bet anything that's exactly the way they demonstrated "color" all those years ago.
It even fits the advertisement image that they had in TV Guide.
Thanks to guys like you and David, one of these days I'm going to run out of all my mysteries of youth!
Now, where do I find some of that yummy, colorful Zip?
Neil:
When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much....
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