How Israel ERASED Colour TV | An AMTV Documentary
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2023
- Not every nation around the Earth would be so excited to adopt TELEVISION into its culture as soon as they could. In ISRAEL, the new independent state was hesitant and resisted television for several decades.
When the development of COLOUR TELEVISION came about, things became more serious. Citing it as an unnecessary luxury, the lengths that the various Israeli Governments went to to prevent colour from reaching local audiences, is truly quite remarkable... In this latest AMTV mini-documentary, we explore that story!
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Thank you for tuning in to this AMTV documentary! I hope you enjoyed this rather baffling yet fascinating story!
The younger generation needed to know that even in the United States that in the late 70s and early 1980's not all TV sets in use were color sets. Black and White sets were still in use until the end of the 1980's in America and probably far later elsewhere. Even medium size TV sets built in the 1960s were well built, easy to get repaired, and last decades with regular use.
Given how much pressure there was from not just the broadcasters but also the people of Israel, I wonder why there weren't political parties saying "vote for us and we will end the ban on color TV".
Another country that could make for an interesting "History of TV" video is Brazil. We took the frequency+geometry+framerate of NTSC, but with PAL color encoding. It was named PAL-M. One of my college teachers was the man who developed the format, Alcyone Fernandes de Almeida Jr. The idea was to avoid both the flickering of PAL standards and the color distortion of NTSC. In fact, it was the best of both worlds and the image quality of locally produced content was gorgeous.
My father talks about talks about being in Israel during the moon landing in 1969. He said that it wasn't available on live TV. He had to listen to it on the radio.
The trial of Adolf Eichmann was televised and broadcast internationally in 1961. I believe this event forced Israeli politicians to rethink.
Israel wasn't the only country where colour was suppressed. I read on the web that here in Australia, before the official launch of colour TV and during the hours when TV stations weren't supposed to broadcast in colour, TV pre-launch, stations kept broadcasting in colour, except that they omitteed the colour burst signal. Like Israel, colour TVs could be modified to be able to watch in colour despite the lack of a colour burst signal, but people had to adjust the picture occasionally as the colours would drift. However, i can't find any references on the web at the moment.
It’ll be fun to see you to cover Japan’s transition to color.
As a teen I remember this time. I did watch the Eurovision in color. It was an event at the time. They did broadcast sometime different shows in color. I remember a nature show with David Attenborough.
It might be interesting to cover South Africa, which didn't have national TV until the late-70s (with most people not having TVs until the 80s).
As an Israeli, I knew about this story but not all of its details. My Gen X parents have always told me of the time there was only was channel. Two bonus facts: 1. One of the shows you showed, Zehu Ze, got a 2020 reboot that’s still going. 2. Tommy Lapid later went into politics, and so did his son, who served as Prime Minister for 6 months last year
I was in elementary school in Israel during the years of: the eraser, anti-eraser and transition to color.
In Iceland we got our first TV station in 1966, but we didn’t get colour until 1976.
These anti-colour TV attitudes were wild, man. I'm surprised there wasn't one that said that colour tv would make people violent or something.
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You should also make a story about how Romania got color television. It has a very interesting history, being the last country in Europe to use colour.
Please do a docu on South African TV. The "ungodly box" was long blocked by Albert Herzog, minister of telecommunications and introduction was comparitively late in 1976.
Thank you for this excellent doc! I'm an Israeli, born in 1975, and I've learned a lot.
I remember this. TV wasn't popular until 1977. Israel won the World Basketball Cup and Eurovision then, and B&W just didn't capture the pageantry of the events.
Great documentary, and the Eurovision connection is fascinating.