BBC trade test transmission film - guide for colour TV

Sounds like Michael Aspel putting on his best BBC English voice.

It is Michael Aspel and I saw this many times when my brother & his wife bought a colour TV circa 1967. There was also "Building a Car," Guessipina" and a pile of others from BP,Shell, ICI and a few others. I was totally absorbed by real colour pictures!!

I love that the ariel is almost bigga than the house

Great stuff. It's rather ironic that this old video now has colour issues.

When do we get the new color TV transmissions then because I am still watching in black and white

I remember a colour trade test film being regularly shown on the BBC in the late 60's called Bulong And Bola. It was about a father and young son travelling along a river somewhere in Asia in a motorised canoe like boat and was made by BP I think.

Great to see this again. I remember watching it as a kid around 1967 - it fascinated me and encouraged me to pursue a career in electronics and engineering in later life.
Many thanks for posting.

I like the size of the aerial on the chimney, that big and the house would tip over lol

did they have to do this to install every T.V. ? today you just take it out of the box and plug it in

dtv sieah over

Didn't realise getting colour TV was this complex.

I bet this was used to fill the void of television during the day on BBC1 and BBC2. Colour arrived in 1967, so I guess this was made around then. In 1967 BBC1 only had schools programmes, adult education and a news summary for daytime television, this would have been used to fill in the odd blank hours.

I think avisynth could clean this up fairly well.

Michael Aspel sounds very posh!

I was so pleased to see this again. Haven't seen this since I was a TV engineering apprentice almost fifty years ago.
Amazingly, I could remember some of the sections before they appeared. :-)

God look at the state of this film. Us Brits never used to look after our media and this is the result. Hard to believe that this recording would have been once crisp and clear.

OK so I have set up my TV and aerial according to the instructions in this video, but I'm not getting a signal. What gives?

Why has some weirdo disliked this?

they may say that ntsc is never the same color..... but I saw a demonstration of pal vs ntsc..... and trust me..... ntsc blows pal away...... without question. period. ask any gamer. done. and, by the the way, is the very first color television system. as of dec,19,1953. we got it right.... straight outta the box.... in 1953....  so there.

for my mother's 30th birthday in 1965 we got a huge color tv. it was great. we loved it. we were one of the first in our neighborhood to get it. by the end of 1965, everybody else had it too. it also came with a very large Magnavox console stereo. remember those?

BBC2 WAS THE ONLY CHANNEL THAT SHOW THIS MON TO SAT. FROM NOV 1967 TO JAN 1971

Sounds like Micheal Aspel

AWESOME LITTLE FILM THAT'S JUST THAT LITTLE BIT CREEPY! DON'T KNOW WHY

Great to see this again reminds me of when I was a newly qualified tv engineer with telefusion

This is as serious sounding as the Protect and Survive film

THIS WAS SHOWN ON BBC2 FROM NOV 1967 TO JAN 1971 DURING BBC2 CLOSEDOWNS WITH BBC2 COLOUR TEST CARD AND COLOUR BARS

Our family didn't get a colour set until 1974, but, in the early 70's,noticing that one of the houses opposite ours had a colour set, my brother and I set up our telescope in our bedroom, tuned into BBC Radio, and took it in turns to watch football games in glorious colours, until they shut their living room curtains for the night.

This was uploaded from a domestic video tape... probably VHS. So colour quality very poor.
The original 16 mm film was good. The optical sound track with its clicks and pops adds to the authenticity.

Our family got colour television when we moved home in the summer of 1972. From around 1957 we had television with BBC and ITV in glorious black and white. Our family moved to a new home in July 1972 and as part of the move we had a new aerial installed on the chimney and as a result Granada rentals came to our family home and offered colour tv rental, which we took up, and so on Saturday 8th July 1972 we saw colour tv for the very first time and also BBC 2 for the first time.

Great video, what a great piece of archive

Never knew that group "D" aerials with BLUE plugs ever existed, only C/D with green.

Good Lord, it's amazing they ever got it to work in the early days

TV's back in the 70's were so unreliable, big heavy bulky old things housed inside a combustible wooden box, I remember quite regularly waiting for the man in his white coat with screwdriver in his top pocket coming round to fix our TV, you prayed that he wasn't gonna say 'we will have to take this back to the workshop' which meant no TV for a week. We don't worry about that in this day and age TV's have become just another disposable item, we just pick a new one up at the local supermarket, far cheaper than repairing them.

Why did the UK get color so much later???

Dad said we'll get colour when the world cup comes..Mexico 1970 got one!!

Great film

97 million years ago television sets had 3 channels bbc and the ITV channels in my case then STV were all on 405 lines and BBC2 was only available on 625 lines that was in the mid sixties then we made VHF and then UHF lines and when colour televisions become available in the late sixities it was a real novelty people especially neighbours came to look at your colour telly charge addmission only joking but 405 lines was just cut off and the format of the colour TV with the three guns making up the picture on the screen the colour and from time to time TVs went on the blink we had to call out a TV Engineer i truly regreat never being a TV repair man , back then there were good makes and bad makes old colour sets were huge full of circuts and the three guns the old annalogue siginal . today we have flat screens pixels much in many ways similar to the 3 gun format but we throw them away now , when they go on the blink

I installed a lot of colour televisions in the early days of colour and would set them up. Dad would then fiddle with the controls because the grass on Match Of The Day didn't look green enough 😊

Wow, that takes me back to being a nerdy kid with an inordinate interest in electronics. I don't think I ever got to see it in colour! I remember the little man waving his degaussing coil, and what happened to our first colour TV picture when my parents decided that it was a good idea to keep the radio (with its permanent magnet speaker) on top of the TV!

Wow..! getting a white Rasta to check for colour purity is a concept that’s changed over the years..🤔