Exact moment when news station switches from black and white to color TV for the first time

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  • Video of WMT-TV switching from black and white to color broadcasts
    WMT-TV Channel 2 in Iowa switched from its black and white programming to color for the very first time during a news report that took place on April 14, 1967.
    The news show started with news anchor Bob Bruner and station manager Doug Grant sitting together talking about what viewers could expect. It was when Bruner went over to a separate desk across the stage, that the change took place.
    Bruner stated that he was honored but perhaps slightly puzzled as to why he was chosen to announce the change.
    "I feel doubly honored to have been chosen to be the first one involved in our big change because there are so many much more colorful characters around here than this report in the news".
    #Television #Technology #Historyoftelevision

Komentáře • 169

  • @johncbeer
    @johncbeer Před 2 lety +502

    1st class humor and humility during a legendary moment.

    • @svenjansen2134
      @svenjansen2134 Před 2 lety +15

      Imagine how horribly it would be presented now..

    • @johncbeer
      @johncbeer Před 2 lety +13

      @@svenjansen2134 OH absolutely! Fox and MSNBC would just find a way to politicize it 😂🤣

  • @beardedlonewolf7695
    @beardedlonewolf7695 Před 2 lety +305

    Even what he says fits perfectly lol, what a time it must have been.

  • @Lasagnaisprettycool
    @Lasagnaisprettycool Před 2 lety +282

    I never knew I wanted to see this. Incredible. They went from 1940 to 1960's in the span of a minute.

    • @gordongiobanni7543
      @gordongiobanni7543 Před 2 lety +6

      CZcams knew you wanted to see it so you were covered

    • @RobloxGuestNews
      @RobloxGuestNews Před rokem +5

      Color tv was invented in the 40s, but wasn’t popular

    • @bsanchez3563
      @bsanchez3563 Před rokem +1

      ​@@RobloxGuestNews cause it was loathed nah just kidding

    • @alexisd1839
      @alexisd1839 Před 19 dny

      ​@@RobloxGuestNewsAs the Internet in the 80's only began to have a certain market in the 90's but the operating costs of the services were still very expensive, starting in the 2000's with technology and globalized industrialization the cost and accessibility became lower so that there were more people. consuming current products

  • @whiskeyclone11
    @whiskeyclone11 Před 2 lety +476

    Amazing! What an interesting thing to experience, I bet this blew peoples minds back then.

    • @sophieku1161
      @sophieku1161 Před 2 lety

      czcams.com/video/vh4-DSAkndU/video.html

    • @savantdacheri
      @savantdacheri Před 2 lety +28

      It's funny maybe I'm the only one who even well into teen years imagined that the real world back then looked black and white or just low quality color

    • @robertrussell2202
      @robertrussell2202 Před 2 lety +8

      @@savantdacheri that's hilarious 😂

    • @mehameha4453
      @mehameha4453 Před 2 lety +24

      TVs used to run on Tubes. I remember turning on the switch and it took a few seconds for the tubes to warm up. About the time it takes to go to the kitchen and get a cup of coffee and back if you didn’t hurry. I remember we got a “Solid state” Zenith TV and it was color. We were probably one of the last people on the block to get a color TV and with solid state the TV turned on instantly. That was 1970. But if you wanted to change the channel or volume you had to get up. TVs were for parents back then and if you were good all week and did your chores, then maybe you could watch Saturday morning cartoons. But back then you didn’t just turn the TV on without asking first. Totally different today, lol.

    • @What.A.Life....
      @What.A.Life.... Před 2 lety +4

      @@mehameha4453 that's so cool! Thank you for sharing. Whew, are times changing or what??

  • @justhuman963
    @justhuman963 Před rokem +97

    Despite being born into a generation that got to experience the transition from the Analog TVs to the HD TVs, I still find this amazing.

    • @iammiserykidd
      @iammiserykidd Před 6 měsíci

      Digital TV..?

    • @layneross4394
      @layneross4394 Před 3 měsíci

      Agreed

    • @Dendoi_
      @Dendoi_ Před 20 dny

      The switch from being able to count pixels to the graphics looking like someone cut a hole in your wall rather than it being your tv is probably exactly how they felt seeing color on tv for the first time

  • @intheory9772
    @intheory9772 Před rokem +42

    " ... because there are so many much more colorful characters around here than this reporter" - and with those words Mr. Bruner unknowingly prophesied the future of news broadcasting.

  • @mrthomas7511
    @mrthomas7511 Před měsícem +5

    My mom was 7 years old when this happened. I wish her parents were still alive so I could show them this on my phone. My grandpa would have loved to see this

  • @1rewd133
    @1rewd133 Před 2 lety +57

    I still remember back in the 60's going across the street to my friends house on Sunday night to watch "The Wonderful World of Disney", one of a few color shows at the time. Our family still had black and white TV's.
    Those days of innocence now lost ...

  • @merandasmith2140
    @merandasmith2140 Před 2 lety +44

    How incredibly neat to watch this today in 2022. We've come such a long way!!

  • @scoop4363
    @scoop4363 Před 2 lety +32

    29APR2022 - I remember our first color TV. It took a 2-year degree from the local tech school to adjust it: color, hue, tint, contrast, brightness, vertical AND horizontal hold. Plus the fine tuning adjustment on the mechanical tuning knob. And, oh yeah, the antenna. That was another 6 months in school.

  • @KIM-xl6zs
    @KIM-xl6zs Před 2 lety +32

    I remember when I was young we didn't have a TV, we used to go to our neighbours place to watch wrestling, I didn't really notice that much back then but the issue really disturbed my father, he didn't like the embarrassment, so my father saved alot of money(back then) and got a coloured tv straight from japan, a sony triton, now we were the only people in the whole area who now had a coloured TV, we were the talk of town, that tv is still around and it functions

  • @LaQuantayviondreTrollinDaWorld
    @LaQuantayviondreTrollinDaWorld Před 3 měsíci +3

    I was born in 1952 when the world was either black,Grey or white I still remember this day in 1967 clear as day I was standing in line at a grocery store then all of a sudden the world became into color and everyone just started cheering

  • @cassiebarber4669
    @cassiebarber4669 Před 4 měsíci +3

    that had to be so cool to see that happen

  • @ordakhan631
    @ordakhan631 Před rokem +10

    My God! Bob was a Colored Man this whole time!

  • @0981462
    @0981462 Před rokem +19

    Now imagine showing them a 8K TV. They'd think it's sorcery.

  • @victorruto1634
    @victorruto1634 Před 2 lety +8

    Was crazy cool back then. Thanks technology.

  • @jeopardy60611
    @jeopardy60611 Před rokem +8

    They probably didn't do multi-cam televising back then, because you see Bruner walking over to the desk across the studio. If it were multi-cam, they would probably not cut to him until he is behind the desk. It looks odd to see him walking over to the desk because you never see that in a modern TV program.

  • @matteo8682
    @matteo8682 Před 2 lety +9

    wow, 1967 ... I was a boy when in 1981 in the afternoon we went to a friend of mine to watch the anime lupine the 3rd (monkey punch) on color tv 😊

    • @simpletechbyabhinav6235
      @simpletechbyabhinav6235 Před 3 měsíci

      Different countries got it at different times en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_introduction_of_color_television_in_countries

    • @matteo8682
      @matteo8682 Před 3 měsíci

      @@simpletechbyabhinav6235 That's exactly what I wanted to highlight

  • @jeopardy60611
    @jeopardy60611 Před rokem +7

    I imagine that color TV's were relatively expensive when they first came out, and very few people had them at the moment that this station switched. It actually reminds me of the scene in The Wizard Of Oz when they switch from black & white to color.

  • @drolllindsay
    @drolllindsay Před rokem +2

    This is so cool. Thank you for sharing!

  • @RBurns80
    @RBurns80 Před 2 lety +12

    You would have needed a color TV to see the color. Which means only those who already owned a color TV would have seen the transition. That probably wasn't many people since why buy a color TV if no one was broadcasting in color?

  • @MizMite2002
    @MizMite2002 Před 7 měsíci +1

    We got our color set in 71 and cartoons were amazing.

    • @IssacLHunt
      @IssacLHunt Před 7 měsíci

      that was shit no HD where his phone

  • @m80116
    @m80116 Před 2 lety +6

    Now we'll have 8K... how dearly did we miss to see that pimple on our favorite host's face.
    Darn I wanna go back in time!

  • @ce9916
    @ce9916 Před 2 lety +2

    Even on CZcams, the first part was in black-and-white

  • @zitools
    @zitools Před 2 lety +7

    Could you imagine being in the theaters when the wizard of oz came out?

  • @VampirusX
    @VampirusX Před 2 lety +101

    The joke is just on point!
    Especially in regards to this dramatic change!
    You gotta love the old days.
    Nowadays everything is more cringe and unpleasant ...

    • @centralprocessingunit4988
      @centralprocessingunit4988 Před 2 lety +6

      what are you talking about?

    • @freedomfirst9819
      @freedomfirst9819 Před 2 lety +1

      @ Battalon Are you talking about = WOKE, CRT, CLIMATE CHANGE, LGBTQ, THE VIOLANCE, SOCIALISM, BIDEN, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!?? If you are your not alone... I cant stand any of that crap...

    • @sophieku1161
      @sophieku1161 Před 2 lety

      czcams.com/video/vh4-DSAkndU/video.html

    • @robertrussell2202
      @robertrussell2202 Před 2 lety +5

      True

    • @UV_Lightning
      @UV_Lightning Před 2 lety +10

      @@centralprocessingunit4988 he’s complaining that he lives in the 21st century

  • @vulpine8458
    @vulpine8458 Před 2 lety +18

    As amazing as it was, who would’ve thought as technology would advanced. So would the people around it, as well as being able to witness how dumb humanity is. blessing and curse.

  • @McKennaBates
    @McKennaBates Před 2 měsíci +1

    Man makes a pun during this moment. Legend.

  • @anjanikumar.t1708
    @anjanikumar.t1708 Před 2 lety +1

    Wow great thing they felt in that time.

  • @randylall647
    @randylall647 Před rokem +1

    Wow, great moment

  • @Ionlycomentwhileimontheshitter

    Much more “colorful characters” 😂

  • @barbarawolke3361
    @barbarawolke3361 Před 2 lety +3

    Hardly anyone had a color TV set

    • @cindirose3390
      @cindirose3390 Před rokem

      Yep, created a need then supplied that market, and we have never looked back,! This video is cool

  • @MrRedhondabadge
    @MrRedhondabadge Před 2 lety +6

    As momentous when we switched to HD cameras

  • @user-pb1xd8pv2l
    @user-pb1xd8pv2l Před 2 lety +2

    "There's much more colorful characters around here than this reporter! ... they're separate but equal, and they d-"

  • @Librocubicularist1
    @Librocubicularist1 Před 2 lety +1

    So cool!

  • @b_uppy
    @b_uppy Před 2 lety +5

    Want to see the old set in color...

  • @humphreygruntwhistle3946

    Stunning HD TV.

  • @grimaffiliations3671
    @grimaffiliations3671 Před 2 lety +2

    The reportee didnt miss with that fire quote 😅

  • @gulraizbhutta
    @gulraizbhutta Před 5 měsíci

    Incredible

  • @mariumeplume9562
    @mariumeplume9562 Před 2 lety +2

    Crushing with that joke

  • @brijeshpatel5758
    @brijeshpatel5758 Před 2 lety

    Amazing bro

  • @ElBarto2023
    @ElBarto2023 Před 10 měsíci

    Most unbelievable TV event ever.

  • @AnonMedic
    @AnonMedic Před 2 lety +1

    My phones night mode is on so im watching this in black and white lol 😆
    no im not going to watch this later in Color.
    Ill say .what a historic moment for video production

  • @thegrandestbazaar4800
    @thegrandestbazaar4800 Před 2 lety

    Very good

  • @arefinarif
    @arefinarif Před 2 lety

    Wow !!!

  • @aBunnyThatWillChewOnYourCables

    "I remember when I was young..."

  • @mr.hernandezdrives
    @mr.hernandezdrives Před 2 lety

    Awesomeeee

  • @top40researcher31
    @top40researcher31 Před 3 měsíci +2

    it wasnt until 1st March 1975 Australia switched to colour

  • @bububu12345
    @bububu12345 Před 2 lety +1

    I can feel it

  • @Revenge1223
    @Revenge1223 Před 2 měsíci

    That's cool!!

  • @user-qh5cd3ex6o
    @user-qh5cd3ex6o Před měsícem

    WOW ! B THE MOMENT TV SWITCHES TO COLOR!!!!!

  • @ZzHasbrozZ
    @ZzHasbrozZ Před 2 lety +2

    Everyone watching on a black and white tv must have thought, I just upgraded from the radio dammit.

  • @witherblaze
    @witherblaze Před rokem

    Nice

  • @jody6851
    @jody6851 Před 5 měsíci

    One catch though: If you didn't have a color TV at that moment, it would still be all in black and white.

  • @user-mj2pu7lo5l
    @user-mj2pu7lo5l Před 5 měsíci

    Every man was thinking "now I can see boobs, in colour"

  • @DJ-bo4pz
    @DJ-bo4pz Před 2 lety +4

    so people didn't had to change their TV or the receiver? How did they plan it in advance if so?

    • @danielson1989
      @danielson1989 Před rokem +2

      I don't know the exact steps but I think people had to buy colour ready TV's. Correct me if i'm wrong.

    • @kentdean3882
      @kentdean3882 Před 7 měsíci

      The color TV did double duty: it would automatically switch from color to black and white reception, depending on the program being broadcast.

  • @ScharfeZungel
    @ScharfeZungel Před 2 měsíci

    I wonder how they would react if they knew hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world would watch this moment on phones that have cameras.

  • @TheVineOfChristLives
    @TheVineOfChristLives Před 2 lety +8

    Now imagine you go back into time and need to bring this technology to humanity, how would you get it done?

    • @T.M....
      @T.M.... Před 2 lety +2

      The exact same way it was done.

    • @jaystyx5134
      @jaystyx5134 Před 2 lety +2

      I would bring back Elon Musk. Once I drop him off, I would come back to 2022. I cant imagine how changed the world would be when I got back lol. Delegation at its finest

    • @egonloos
      @egonloos Před 2 lety +1

      pff

    • @cindirose3390
      @cindirose3390 Před rokem

      The FBI would have ya locked up in an exterrestrial alien cell.

    • @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN
      @PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN Před 7 měsíci

      @@jaystyx5134 elon musk would cause a time paradox and everything would be worse...

  • @fatamorgana4318
    @fatamorgana4318 Před 2 lety +2

    When TV's were furniture

  • @nintendoplayprebeta2879
    @nintendoplayprebeta2879 Před 2 lety +1

    and anderson cooper is older than i think

  • @CBlargh
    @CBlargh Před 6 měsíci

    I wonder why the colours flip in and out for a second before settling.

    • @Chad_Thundercock
      @Chad_Thundercock Před 5 měsíci +1

      Analog broadcasting suffered a lot of signal distortion and reflections, and the actual color signal was, for simplicity's sake, hidden as a much more complex subsampling of the B&W signal.
      Until your TV could 'lock on' to the hidden color information, it would wobble around like that.
      The details are absurdly mathematical and border on straight up black magic, but that's the simple answer.

  • @geometricart7851
    @geometricart7851 Před 3 měsíci

    In 1967 people were seeing color in tv's before this LOL

    • @alexisd1839
      @alexisd1839 Před 19 dny

      in the USA since the 50's, according to Wikipedia you could catch the USA broadcasts from Canada because the cities are relatively close, but color televisions were super expensive

  • @jorgeholguin1645
    @jorgeholguin1645 Před 2 lety

    What year was this

  • @user-uk9go3ej3t
    @user-uk9go3ej3t Před 2 lety +1

    Интересный переход от черно-белого к цветному телевидению

  • @battlehenge4
    @battlehenge4 Před 2 lety +7

    Hello world!

  • @88Blazehaze
    @88Blazehaze Před 2 lety

    Mind Full spectrum dominance

  • @softwarefacts5801
    @softwarefacts5801 Před 2 lety

    When was it? Date? Where?

  • @MAV44444
    @MAV44444 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks to Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena……a Mexican scientist 👍

    • @miniongeorge60
      @miniongeorge60 Před 4 měsíci +1

      The first color tv was made in 1928 by John Logie Baird in 1928. Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena didn’t make his until 1940

  • @DavidMcFarner
    @DavidMcFarner Před 2 lety

    WOW!!!

    • @dennisgarber
      @dennisgarber Před 2 lety +2

      Wow to video and the swarm of bots that are posting comments.

  • @nintendoplayprebeta2879

    now, you can be lied to in technicolor

  • @idkjusteli
    @idkjusteli Před 3 měsíci

    pov you skip a cutscene

  • @ernestcote2836
    @ernestcote2836 Před 2 lety

    What’s cooler? Black and white TV to color or the internet? Just lookin for what people think

  • @artisthavi5743
    @artisthavi5743 Před 2 měsíci +1

    0:46

  • @basant0908
    @basant0908 Před 9 měsíci

    So people
    Had color tvs before they had colored transmission ?

    • @Chad_Thundercock
      @Chad_Thundercock Před 5 měsíci

      Yes, but also no.
      The rollout of color didn't happen overnight, and some stations upgraded their equipment sooner than others.

  • @xxxbrooklyn
    @xxxbrooklyn Před rokem +1

    My family had a black and white from the 1960’s well into the early 80’s

  • @kirilvelinov7774
    @kirilvelinov7774 Před 5 měsíci

    Katsumotoland in 1968:

  • @dobees8183
    @dobees8183 Před 2 lety

    Like when we all went to HD, people looked GROSSSSSS.

    • @VesproDBA
      @VesproDBA Před 2 lety +1

      don't leave the house.. it gets worse in person

  • @sidimightbe3246
    @sidimightbe3246 Před 2 lety +1

    Heidy ho there neighborino!

  • @TikyeWilliams
    @TikyeWilliams Před 3 měsíci

    Innovation

  • @justinwalker4475
    @justinwalker4475 Před 9 měsíci

    lol

  • @bladekhaira
    @bladekhaira Před 9 měsíci

    ohh i always thought in the past the world was black and white..

  • @Pisti846
    @Pisti846 Před 9 měsíci

    Like the Wizard of Oz.

  • @mares3841
    @mares3841 Před 2 lety

    Charo would have done it better

  • @dratonbalat3423
    @dratonbalat3423 Před 4 měsíci

    Did not help bold guys. Same when we to HD, many people with holes in their faces quit their careers and guys with colored eyes became in higher demand.

  • @AstroTutorTV378
    @AstroTutorTV378 Před měsícem

    rtm Color TV

  • @Ibhenriksen
    @Ibhenriksen Před 9 měsíci

    Too bad only 5% of households had color when it switched over. 😅

  • @M-M666
    @M-M666 Před 2 lety

    Of course!! Thanks to a MEXICAN GUY NAME IS : GUILLERMO CAMARERA THE GREAT INVENTOR OF THE COLOR TV 👍🏻🎉🎊🌟✨💯 MEXICAN GUY 🎉🎊🌟✨👍🏻🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

    • @miniongeorge60
      @miniongeorge60 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena did invent a color tv in 1940, but the creation of the color tv goes to John Logie Baird in 1928

  • @JonLa89
    @JonLa89 Před 2 lety +5

    Now in the year of 2022 we have 4k UHD and can see in great detail the fish like air exhaled out of Ellen Degeneres's mouth when she talks to her guests.

  • @er.ernawati.radar.orari.50

    TUHAN

  • @tacoswelding8411
    @tacoswelding8411 Před 2 lety

    We’d be watching black and white tv if it wasn’t for Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena a taco loving Mexican.

    • @miniongeorge60
      @miniongeorge60 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Guillermo did make a color tv, but John Logie Baird invented it in 1928

    • @tacoswelding8411
      @tacoswelding8411 Před 4 měsíci

      @@miniongeorge60 don’t be bitter 😂
      Let ol gillie have his 15 minutes for his contribution ffs
      Your comment is equivalent to
      “Henry ford did make a car. But Carl Benz invented it “ wtf 😆
      “Martin Luther did have a dream yes that’s true. But others have had dreams before him” 😂
      “Frank whittle & friends did make a turbojet engine, but the wright brothers invented it.” 😆
      Wait wait I have another one
      “Trump was president yes it’s true. But goerge Washington invented it. “ 🤣
      Big ol culero 😆

    • @alexisd1839
      @alexisd1839 Před 19 dny

      ​@@miniongeorge60Like Windows, they got it from Mexicans who created it, but the entire interface part was stolen from Apple by Bill Gates...

  • @harisrashid6318
    @harisrashid6318 Před 2 lety +5

    People back then were more smarter and intelligent
    They had better dressing sense
    Look at the guy who comes in to give him the mic or something how he is dressed
    People now just copy the trend n become fashion designer s
    Honestly we are just a piece of useless generstion

    • @VesproDBA
      @VesproDBA Před 2 lety +1

      you mean you don't like today's raggedy blue hair or pants falling down look?

    • @angrychild2909
      @angrychild2909 Před rokem

      ​@@VesproDBAbro I'm just a saggin backwards 🤡🤡

  • @kytddjj
    @kytddjj Před 2 lety

    .

  • @aspirin4709
    @aspirin4709 Před měsícem +1

    Who watches TV in 2024?

  • @alsayedmohammed2367
    @alsayedmohammed2367 Před 2 lety

    50 secs too long

  • @maxmerton
    @maxmerton Před 2 lety

    It’s a pity that someone couldn’t take enough care to make the transcript accurate 🤦‍♂️

  • @GooogleGoglee
    @GooogleGoglee Před 2 lety

    And then we went from that to this:
    czcams.com/video/MRuS3dxKK9U/video.html

  • @ctbt1832
    @ctbt1832 Před 6 měsíci

    Look almost the same

  • @scottmcmahon9719
    @scottmcmahon9719 Před 2 lety +1

    Now they lie daily in brilliant high definition 4k.

    • @NorybDrol82
      @NorybDrol82 Před 2 lety

      Really. Shut up. No cares for your BS. This is interesting history not your insufferable politics. Give it a rest snow flake.

  • @MrUranium238
    @MrUranium238 Před 9 měsíci

    your white😅

  • @anoio
    @anoio Před 2 lety

    Fun fact: Color brodcasting began when they changed black-white clothes to color ones 🖕