The Day a Black and White world turned into Living Color
The First Coast to Coast Colorcast
January 1, 1954 Across the side wall of the pitch black ballroom were five flickering television receivers. Three were conventional 21-inch black and white sets. But between them were two bulky red-mahogany cabinets with small but incredibly beautiful COLOR pictures on them! The cabinets only had 12-inch screens, so tiny and blurry that you had to look at the larger black and white screens to recognize detail. But it was color and it was gorgeous! - rich Technicolor reds, greens, and blues, from the Tournament of Rose Parade in sunny and bright Pasadena, California.
A NBC/RCA Color Camera Pans the Opening Color Guard of the 1954 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade