TV in color there was in the United States since 1954. In West Germany it lasted until 1967, to flicker free colour television was received through the expensive television sets. The spectators remained, however, long skeptical.
The Era of color television in Germany began with a false start. The Studiouhr at the International radio exhibition in West Berlin showed that 25. August 1967 10.57 PM. Minutes of the Hand of the former had floated foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt during his speech about the signal red button, the camera was just on the lectern is installed. A pure mock-up, seconds later. Because of the SPD to see in a politician-still in Black – and-White pushed him, it was already too late.
One of the broadcast engineers lost, apparently, while the word technical designs of Brandt rich in nerves – and the first German color television broadcast started early. Before the politician could press the button really, flickered in the house already for the first time, colored television images of his speech on the screen.
Statesmanlike Brandt on the screen, announced with the usual sonorous voice: “In the hope that many of the peaceful-colored, but also exciting-colored events I now give, in a sense, the start of a shot.”
Initially an expensive luxury devices
Fortunately, there were at that time in the whole of Germany, only 5800 devices, the the novel color vision is made possible, so that few spectators noticed the glitch. Curious from Berlin to Munich, had to press that day, nor the nose to the window panes of the shops for TV device platform to the event to witness. The Least able to afford a device of your own. Between 2000 and 4000 Mark, you had to pay in West Germany, rates of purchase it was not.
The first German TV show in color: “The Golden shot”
To promote sales, the store owner let the new color TV, even after the end of running to new customers to attract. As the first television broadcast in color, the spectators at this legendary 25. August, the popular Saturday evening show “The Golden shot” with show master Vico Torriani on the screen to admire.
The whole of the Studio decoration was immersed in a strange, artificial world of colour. The fashionably coiffed assistants tänzelten thick make-up and glittering mini-dresses through the Studio. Only the Smoking of Torriani put in a classic suit, a comforting black counterpoint in the colour suggested. “I would say the changeover from Black-and-White to color was like a shock”, was a spectator of the transmitter indignant know.
A lot of effort for little program
Camera men and lighting technicians introduced this technical innovation of color television in front of unexpected challenges, such as TV-Director, Olaf Haas later told. “We had to take into consideration the costumes, the stage, in the mask. Especially Obvious in the TV Studio has taken a lot of time. The pig launchers could not be easily dimmed, otherwise the got a shimmering Red light, and all colors are dissolved.”
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1967 – West Germany to start the color television
Tinted intricately with white tulle, or cotton gauze, the Set up of the light now cost a lot of time. “The flexibility for black and white recordings in the Studio, until then, had was then,” stated Haas, who accompanied the first color television broadcasts in the Studio. Also, the makeup artists had to improvise a lot in the beginning. “There was no Makeup on the market. We then tried to mix the Makeup colors: colorful tones, grey tones, found in many different shades – until we reach the Optimum.”
A lot of constraints: the Stress in the mask
Nevertheless, The new colorful world of television seemed anything but natural and pleasant. Actress Heidi cables from the famous Hamburg Ohnesorg-Theater, which was broadcast in the 60s with his performances in low German regularly in the Saturday evening program, recalled with horror the early days of color television: “We all looked like Clowns, completely concealed with make-up. For us, it was awful.”
Added to this were the constant color changes on the screen. The face colour of the properly made-up TV announcement channels Chan alloyed in seconds from white through greenish-yellow to crimson. The effect came about with the technical Transmission of the color signals of the three primary colors. The German TV channel had invested, together with the Federal post office and the device industry more than 200 million marks in the development of the new transmission technology.
The cultural event of the German Federal post office even has a stamp value
In the first years, just four hours per day were to be seen in color. The consumer consequently, it was skeptical, although there have been in America since the beginning of the 50s colored TV: “I would wait with the purchase of a color device, until the teething problems are fixed,” says a TV audience on the radio exhibition in 1967 in the current camera. And added: “And to the fact that the devices are cheaper!”
Football world Cup as a sales engine
Had the German PAL System (for”Phase Alternating Line”) of the communications engineer Walter Bruch in the laboratory of the Telefunken-works of the workshops in Hanover. Under his leadership, modified the German engineers already in the 50 years of US-led American and French transmission techniques. Lengthy patent negotiations delayed the Start in Germany, however, years.
In the GDR the TV viewers were only on 3. October, 1969, to enjoy, to see the Flag of the German Democratic Republic, also on the screen in revolutionary Red. The state leadership but decided against the West German PAL System and the French SECAM System for the signal transmission of the GDR colour TV, analogue to the brother States of the Soviet Union. The buying interest for the expensive equipment was in the two German States hesitantly.
The Olympic games in Munich in 1972 and the football world Cup in 1974, gave the now-cheaper devices-the Generation of the color TV breakthrough: the success of The National team, everybody wanted to see in color.