Watch a 1961 RCA Victor COLOR Television CTC-11!
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Here's a 1961 RCA Victor CTC-11 chassis color TV. Its a remote controlled set. I restored it electronically back in '03. It hasn't been turned on in close to two years until today. You are watching the JFK inaugural speech recorded January 26, 1961.
I am 67 now but I still remember the first time I saw The Wizard of Oz in color on tv! When Dorothy opens the door onto Munchkinland in glorious color? that was mind-blowing!
That that was in the pioneering days of color television. The technology has advanced great so that a far wider range of color is possible.
@@RayPointerChannel no doubt
Wow, what a find. Back in ‘61 Color TV was still a distant dream in my family. We didn’t get a color set until ‘71 and it was a cheap GE portable color. Thanks!
History being shown on history. It's amazing to think this set could've been showing the JFK inauguration as it happened. It's got a fantastic picture.
I love vintage electronics. I am glad that you are collecting these old televisions.
Beautiful set. These bring back some great memories as a kid.
Outstanding restoration job. Rare breed of vanishing technicians, at this age of throw away culture. Makes me feel young looking back at yesterday.
Damn! It still has the original picture tube? That's amazing. That is how great the quality of American made tv's were back then.
How appropriate a program for a 1961 set.
Good work, sir!
Yes... The last legitime democrat president, legitimally elected.
Great to see the 1961 Inauguration on a 1961 Television. We got our 1st RCA Color set in Nov 1966. They called it a "Portable" because it had a handle on each side of the wood-grain metal case - so portable it took my Father and Uncle to carry it in! It had mother of pearl style recessed dials and the RCA Color logo was a rainbow that changed as you moved around.
I miss tvs that looked like furniture, its just feels cozy :(
@Zahir Kye stfu lol
@Taylor Malik stfu lol
I remember my grandparents having a TV that looked like that.
Funny how it is in a time loop and only picks up 60s broadcasts !!! Lol Neat trick : D
Hahahah
Tv magic
Can’t you get an old British telly to do that - with enough cables and attachments, all those programmes previously deleted can be effectively recovered - who’s for some previously missing Dr Who adventures from the Hartnell and Troughton years? Or some old anthology series previously lost? Or previously missing sitcom episodes? Or original Avengers episodes? Even the black and white shows can effectively be coloured in, as it were - colourised - and enhanced enough to look fresher and newer than when they were fresh and new!
That looks exactly like a TV my grandparents had. They gave it to us and we were still using it in the 1980s. We were also given a VCR from the late 70s that had the clearest picture I’ve ever seen on a VCR. It’s the only one we’ve ever seen where the picture was perfectly clear When you paused it, it looked as clear as a DVD on pause.
I seriously love the fact that it has motorized controls via remote. The clutching technique you just described, is fascinating.
Honestly, this almost brings tears to my eyes. Thank you for making this "time machine" for those of us old enough to remember!
A look at a historical moment on a classic color TV. Marvelous.
Watching that footage in 2017 teared me up big time. That was a President. And watching it on that beautifully restored set from the same time just finished me off. And a very classy way to end the video sir. Thank you. A bit sad to note that this set unless from a very early production run would not have seen this broadcast live. Still it sends chills up my spine to think that it may have been possible.
Wow! Color TV! An RCA Victor Color TV! I know what I've been missing now! WOW!
Seriously, I WANT ONE!
Oh, man! I can still sing that jingle!
Damn. That’s a beauty. The speech at the end on a vintage TV was pure genius. Gave me chills.
That TV must've cost a bundle when it 1st came out. We didn't have our 1st color TV until '75 or '76. It was a 19" portable my older sister gave us when she got a newer bigger TV. The 19" was also our 1st TV which was able to receive UHF channels, which our old 19" B&W console couldn't. We had to live with only CBS, NBC, ABC, WGN (chicago) and PBS until I was about 13 years old in '76. With UHF, I was able to watch at least 3 or 4 more good channels. Spiderman cartoons and wrestling where were on them.
convergance and purity look great , The contrast and luminance level are great as well for such an old set
Nice set!! I recapped a similar set to yours 'cept has the folding doors in front. If you haven't found a battery for the remote, I just used 3 x A640 batteries, stacked 'n taped together, and fits and works great. Only reason I wanted this big set was the cool remote... separate amp, the complicated gears and solenoids, remote looks like a Star Trek weapon etc. I'm dusting mine back off again as I'm finally going to refinish the cabinet top, is stained and scratched up.
Greetings from Ireland, love and amazed at your videos. This is space age technology here in Ireland as of 1961. Our first (and only) national channel was launched on Dec 31 1961. So to imagine a color let alone a remote control set in Irish homes at the time was unimaginable
drh4683 has that distictive Classic Television voice that makes you feel like you're in the year 1961.
We got our first color set in 67, one of the first 25" rectangular tube sets. We could have still gotten a roundtube new then as well. Sadly it was a Magnavox tube set, and quickly began failing. Shame as it had a great stereo system and speakers and the sound was very nice,but the TV was crap, we got to know Chuck from Tallman TV repair very well! I later heard that chassis was junk on those models.
Hard to believe that's it's been 15 years since analog shut down. Good thing you made this video before that happened.
RCA"s subsidiary, NBC, was the ONLY TV network scheduling a handful of color programs (including "BONANZA") in 1961; ABC didn't have the technology or financial backing for color telecasts until September 1962 [and only TWO shows were in color on their scheule that season- "THE FLINTSTONES" and "THE JETSONS"], and CBS refused to schedule ANY color shows (because they didn't want to help RCA sell their color sets) until the fall of 1965.
I was "given" a set like this (or similar) by a neighbor lady in about 1975. It was remote control and the knob turned mechanically with a "ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk" sound as you pressed the remote. Man, you did a great job restoring this set. It looks absolutely beautiful. On another note.....I really miss the aroma of hot tubes in a wooden TV cabinet. I remember if you left them on long enough there was that deliscious retro smell of hot tubes and wood
We in Australia had to wait till 1975 for colour TV's. Out first colour TV in the later 70s was a Phillips.
It wasnt in our budget. We didnt have our first color TV until 75 or 76 and it was second hand 19 inch from my sister.
When I was a child my favorite tv was an old Admiral Color TV bought in 1973.
Amazing, in1961 in my part of Ireland my parents didn't even have electricity, running water or indoor toilet and lived in poverty.
I can remember back in the days my Aunt & Uncle had an old Zenith TV that had a mic pickup for the remote control. Every time they they ran the vacuum cleaner, they had to shut the TV down. If they didn't, the channel selector would constantly flip through channels while the vacuum cleaner was running. I thought that was funny.
Color TVs were so expensive, I don't think we got our first until around 1966 and after three years it was a mostly orange TV. I remember the feature of our next color TV being "solid state."
Great Hobby! TV repair was my hobby in the 1980s, then CB Radio. I miss my TV hobby and might try to get started in it again, thanks to the inspiration I have found watching your videos. Thanks!
Really great set and remote control on a color TV in 1961, wonderful. Its a real shame the USA let it all go to China....
Nice, Nice, Nice, Did I mention its a very nice set. Someday I hope to restore an old color set. Im working on an old 1953 Dumont right now.
I was a teenager in the early 1960's. Color TV sets did not have the crystal clear digital picture reception that we have today. Ours was a Zenith ChromaColor with a 25" screen. Unfortunately, depending on how far one lived from the TV station and the quality of the outdoor antenna, the color had to be adjusted manually. At times it was difficult to bring the red and green hues into a perfect union. Also, signal interruptions would cause the horizontal and vertical holds to become distorted. At its very best, color reception was far from great, but all we had. For all who are crazy about the 1960's, you can have those years with my blessing. I've been there once and would never go back.
This is a beautiful set Doug. Nice color set.
This is my favorite set you have restored. Well one of my faves. I am slowly learning this art of restoring these TVs.
Your televisions are sooooooooooooo cool and amazing! Glad I found your channel.
400 WATTS!!! I forgot those old color TV's were infamous for using a LOT of electricity! I also remembers TV took a minute to "warm up"...before you'd even see the picture or hear it. Ironically the new HDTV's also have a "warm up" period, they just splash a logo on the screen so you know it's on!
Whoa! I'm from 1990, and this is completely foreign to me. Never before have I seen such a television set! Keep it running! It is a piece of history.
The picture looks surprisingly good.
that's an amazing set you have there.I'm a big fan of tvs like these
Woah!! A Remote only TV from 61?? wow!! This set must have been the equivalent of today's big screen plasma TV's.
The first color tv I saw was about 1967 at my uncle's house. Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color was on NBC and Donald Duck had green feet...my uncle hadn't quite got the hang of the tint control settings yet. Ha Ha!!
These are way better than anything today. Nothing from today is good.
wow amazing set
Outside of one or two on display in the front window of an appliance store, I NEVER saw a color TV in someone's living room until about 1967.
Guess the prices had come down because we didn't get our own until late 1968.
I recall watching the Apollo 8 moon mission on our "Brand New" Zenith!
Remember my parents had many of these sets my dad & us kids would go down to thrifty drug stores in the day to buy replacement tubes for these tvs I bought one myself years ago paid 100$ for it from guy that listed it in the penny saver turned out that when I bought it watching it for about 5 minutes the picture started to be wormy I had a repair guy come out to look @ it he told me would cost 175$ to replace main tub in it he even told me wouldnt be worth to fix it so I passed on having it fixed, these sets though was made in solid wood they was built very well..
Also as a young child remember even watching the assassination of jfk was on an old set like this one remember to when Walter Cronkite came on with a special news bulletin & reported jfk has been shoot & killed as he was taking off his glasses choking up was a very sad day back then & will never forget it..
luv those motor-driven dials! So neat!
Thanks for sharing, that was a very interesting.
JFK,s presidential inauguration speech. First time I've heard it.
Man has it in his hands to eliminate poverty , he said it right there. Very good!
I So remember this speech. I live in WV and West Virginia help JFK win the election.
And I remember this speech on out RCA TV but it was Black and White.
I watched his funeral on the same TV when he was tragically killed. In Dallas TX.
By the way our TV Antenna was some 2800' straight up a very steep hill.
The Antenna was a multi channel unit and the wire up the mountain was called Ladder wire.
Two copper wires held apart by plastic strips every 12" or so.
And Insulators made of white ceramic with a nil thru the middle.
Thanks for pulling on my 72 year old memory bank I truly enjoyed this video.
My mother was able to get a Silver-tone black and white in 1956. I started to gain weight because of the tube. By the time Eisenhower died, she had a color circular screen. I recall the deep blues from that televised service.
@David Vance Yeah, I recall some 60 plus years later, she bought it a Sears and the dude that brought it in did it all by himself and commented, " that's what makes a man out of me."- or something similar !
I just wanted to say thank you for the video. I'm writing a scene in the early 60s where a character turns on a TV....it's much different from now and I've spent the past 15 minutes or so just looking for a TV from the era turning on. I'm 40 so we've had a variety of TV with dials and such, and I remember them warming up a bit, but I really wanted real feel. Thanks for having your collection available to answer a functional question.
That mechanical tuning is cool, wish my crt tv had that
Color TV was considered such a luxury back then. I remember being blown away in the early 1970's when I got my first color TV, and discovered that Lucille Ball and Wilma Flintstone had red hair!
Wow ... thanks for the demo AND the bit of history.
Dad bought an Admiral with the RCA chassis, can't recall if it was a 9 or 11. The original picture tube was a sulfide phosphor type. When it finally died, the replacement was a rare earth phosphor which was brighter. The only problem is that it ate 3A3 rectifiers every few months with the new tube which drew more current than the original sulfide tube. I ended up putting in a solid state 3A3 sub which lasted two weeks. Tried one more and it ran years lasting until the second tube finally went.
Wonderful set ! Elegant wooden cabinet !
I have seen this same model in books in TV movies but never seen one in person. have always wanted to own one
someone must have had alot of money to afford a set back then with remote control ability. it was awesome to see.
old tv showing the program of the time nice!!!
Imagine all of the good shows that played on it! There are some shows that were in Color before 1965, such as Bonanza and The Lucy Show, Superman etc.
This set reminds me of the one my family had up until 1973 .It was a black and white set , though. My earliest recollection of it was when I was 6 in 1967 so I know it was purchased probably at least 2 or 3 years earlier
Love the old "furniture" style tvs...Our family never had a color set till 1976...Zenith 19 inch.....weighed a TON!
Oh man that is beautiful. It’s so big, I love it. I want one someday now.
*"Don"t ask what your TV can do for you. Ask your self what you can do for your all new 1961 RCA Color TV set."*
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All right reserved.
Nice television I bet that (RCA) Thomson comumer Electronic dont make anything like this anymore .Tha was when American Made RCA Televisons were at there best .We will no lonnger see a set fully made in america like in the past . Its Really nice Doug that You care to restore these old television sets . There are still many of these set still out there now still working fine . I seen many of them up in the appleton ,wisconsin area . You may want to take a tripp up these sometime .
I love how Color is spelled differently in Canada and England than in the states.. Here in Canada, we spell it colour. lol
+cowtippingrocks Honor is honour, favor is favour, valor is valour, savior is saviour, etc....
@@odouls779... and in the UK it's programme not program, neighbour not neighbor, centre not center, and theatre not theater.
We still have our 1961 RCA largest combination and still use it, very nice color and sound, it took 4 men to deliver it.
Very cool. Reminds me of my youth. My father had a TV shop and I used to get the junkers and try to repair them.. my first Color TV was like this one.. I think it was from 1966 had the CTC 16 Chassis.. remember that well. I was the only 12 year old that had a color floor model in his bedroom.
Just OUTSTANDING Sir! Keep sharing these remarkable examples of U.S.A. craftmanship.
Thanks VERY MUCH,
Dan Gross, Saint Louis, Mo.
You entire video was...beautiful, including your chosen content to run on the T V Set! I have a late 1960s Zenith Color set(not a console, though)with remote. It's just sitting-for now, but one day I hope to fire it up. Last time I turned it on, it powered up and...on. A friendly mine who recently passed on had this(along with two other sets)in the Arcade he ran for decades; One T V for each Network; headphones and 3/way switch provided for those who wanted to watch T V. At the time...Nothing like it! Year's ago, he gave me 2(of the three)sets, but I dropped one loading it into my vehicle. They were brutally heavy!
I remember a couple of years ago, the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) in Toronto, Canada once had a special feature called, "The History of TV." I love to see all these old TV set's like this one displaying all the old time TV program moments.
What a cool hobby! Thanks for sharing your efforts and this memory, not only the tv but the broadcast. It really added a nice touch to your very clean video post.
thanks!
Perfect TV, perfect program choice....real Americana....
The color footage of the Kennedy inaugural was filmed for the U.S. Information Service.
No network televised the address in color, although NBC did carry the inaugural parade in color in 1957 and 1961.
I believe that in 1965, NBC was the first to colorcast their complete Inauguration Day broadcast.
It was not in 1954 Rose parade the first TV color broadcast in USA ???
2008: no
2009: nah
2010: naw
2011: nu-uh
2012: no way
2013: not a chance
2014: not happening
2015: nada
2016: not yet
2017: well...
2018: Almost..
2019: TV FROM 1961!!! :D
Shut the fuck up, we've seen this joke a billion times
I loved that very old. Tv. Set. Like a. Rca. Tubes type color tv. Like. A. Cthulhu 11
my grandparents didn't get a color TV until the mid seventies! when my dad was a kid!
great AGC for such an old set. Great color
Some family probably watched JFK's head get blown apart on this set, back in 63.
I miss TVs like this, even though they are well before my time.
Very nice set
I like the comment that you have to wait for it to warm up. Now you have to wait every time you change channels with digital TVs. These consoles also have better sound reproduction than the tiny speakers that are in flat screens. It was mono, but it sounded quite good and the TV was a nice piece of furniture. Bought a lot of lemon pledge to oil the wood. 300 ohm twin lead was a hassle to attach from the TV to the antenna as it could not be run too close to metal as you would degrade the signal. In 1961 we had a whole three channels and they all signed off at night. We also needed three antennas as they were located at different locations in the same town. Working in the Television industry in the past, I was used to "Studio" analog pictures and very few people optimized their Antennas and TVs, but I was surprised one time when I saw a friends setup that was as close as you could get, without being connected to the TV station. Rabbit Ears with foil attached just does not qualify as a good antenna unless you hold it just right and don't move.
I have a 32 inch LCD that takes damned near as long to "boot up" as that set took to warm up.
Me too.
I’m glad I was alive back then. I’d go back if I could.
This is a really nice set. Fantastic idea showing Kennedy's swearing in! I put that around Jan 20, 1961. I'm surprised it was in color. I saw my first color TV in 1961. It made quite an impression as I still remember it after 47 yrs. I saw it in a TV store window in Plattsburg, NY. The Lennin Sisters wearing yellow dresses and a sky blue background. I was 5 at the time. Our first color TV was a Muntz. we got it in 1964. It was also the first set I could watch UHF on. Thanks for a cool video!
Ahhhh, the “Good Ole Days” of Three Major Networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) and a few local ‘Independent’ stations ( Ch. 2 KTVU, Ch. 9 KQED, ) and dozens of “UHF” Channels from 13 to 65 😊. ‘Rabbit Ear’ Antennas and Rooftop Antennas. Television went “Off The Air” at 1:00 / 2:00 Am depending on the day of the week and area you lived in. Some areas went off as early as 9:00 Pm and didn’t resume broadcasting until 3:00 Pm the following day.
My Dad purchased this TV about 1963 for about $500. The salesman talking him into the purchase and he made monthly payments of about $40 a month. A year or so later the TV was selling for $300.
I started repairing TV's as a teenager back in about 1978 until about 1981, did a lot of the older tube sets then and non tube sets. From what I remember the Zenith's were usually better made sets then were the RCA's and the GE's were pretty awful if I remember correctly as were the Philco's (Ford)... Then there were the Quasars (I think a division of Motorola) with their unique "works in the draw" the entire chassis was upright and would slide out of the cabinet... Those were interesting days... We use to charge up the HV capacitors in a box if we knew one of the other techs was going to get one soon and laugh when he stuck his hand in the box and got wacked a few times, the colorful language would fly and we'd say Hey Hey adjust your tint man!!! ;-)
ah the snow and white noise when on a station not available.memories
a 10 year old tv collector loves your videos
i've been observing this because i had a similiar tv like that in the 70's not realizing back then that it was a 1960's television set, it was during my childhood , in fact back then alot of that we had was from the 1960's , the very house we lived in was there in in the 1960's , i can remember watching a tv like this in the 70's and not thinking anything of it , it was the norm to me , i didnt know that eventually that was gonna change later on.
I would like to see a roundup of your entire collection in order to explore it in one video to appreciate the awesome models you have!
Wow..nice old tv! I have one almost like the one on the left @3:22. Not sure if the cabinet is the same, but the panel on the side with the channel, speaker, etc is the same.
WOW! Nice set. I remember we were the first on our block in 1960 with an RCA color set (that would be pre-New Vista). It was a CTC10, manual tuning, same color controls as yours, and the multi color badge.
I think the cabinet model was the Montecello, the colonial maple cabinet.
I was popular with my friends on Saturday mornings, as they would show up to watch Sheri Lewis and Cap't Bob in color. (Cap't Bob ran Ruff n Reddy cartoons).
You've got a great picture on that original tube!
I think it was in 1964 when programs started being produced in color. Spike Jones had a variety show that was still in b/w. On his first show, as a parody of the NBC peacock, he had a penguin walking slowly up to the camera with a sign over his neck. It said: "This program is brought to you in living black and white"
to pappyCaligula: oh my gosh...I REMEMBER THAT. My grandfather owned a TV and appliance store from the 1930s up to about 1980. His premier brand was RCA. He had a top of the line set at home. What I always noticed was that even the black and white shows had a green edge around everything in the picture. I had no idea that quirk was exclusive to RCA. I just assumed that all old color sets did that
My parents had a set almost exactly like this except it had no remote or motorized controls on the dials but it was an RCA and it was a color set. You wouldn't happen to know what model that was would you? They were married in 1962 so it was probably a '61 or '62. My mom said that the only program they could find in color on tv one night when my grandparents were over was the Flintstones!
Has a nice picture!