RCA ad in LIFE magazineMarch 18, 1946
TV available soon
(324 kB pdf)
Early Magazine Articles on TV and Color TV
RCA ad in LIFE magazine
March 18, 1946
TV available soon
(324 kB pdf)
June 1946 Popular Science
Television Reaches Out
January 1950 Popular Mehanics:
Rainbow on the TV Screen
Custom Built Projection TV is Still Profitable
RCA's New Direct-view Tri-Color Kinescopes
August 5 1950 TV Forecast
Chicago plus Milwaukee and even Grand Rapids
with an amazing mix of articles
(2.5 MB pdf file)
Big Pictures on Color TV Made Possible by Drum Filter
September 1951 Popular Science
Including:
"What Color Does to TV" (RCA still testing despite CBS win at FCC)
and
"TV Color 'Sampler' Costs only $8" (DIY
CBS color adapter)
[1.5 MB pdf file]
December 1951 Popular Mechanics
Let's Send TV Around the World -
December 1951 Popular Science
Here Comes TV for Everybody
[UHF expansion]
January 1952 Popular Mechanics
March 1953 Popular Mechanics
Including:
What's Ahead in TV (Allen Du Mont)
Transistors - "not expected to supplant the electron tube"
TV Guide 26 June 1953
"This is Color TV"
January 1954 Popular Mechanics:
Color TV is Here
April 2 1954 RCA Ad in US News and World Report
"rainbow you can see in black and white"
Announcing Compatible Color TV
(304 kb pdf file)
TV Guide 2 April 1954
First Color Commercial
(Marie McNamara, RCA's auburn-haired "Miss Color TV")
Article from the Detroit Times
Sunday Pictorial Review
18 April 1954
(192 kb pdf)
July 1954 Popular Science
ABC's of Color Television
January 1955 Popular Mechanics
How to Operate Your New Color-TV Receiver
1955-56 RCA TV Brochure with Black and White
and New Big Color TV (CTC-4 Chassis)
(585kB pdf file)
January 1956 Popular Electronics:
Assembling the Image Orthicon
Handy Man's TV Repair (ca.1956)
TV Roundup, supplement to
The Chicago American
03 Nov 1957, 12 Jan 1958, 19 Jan 1958
September 1959 Popular Electronics
Special Report on Color TV Today
The Magic of Cross-Country Communications
December 1963 Radio Electronics
Color TV Today and Tomorrow
(2.1 MB pdf file)
December 1964 / January 1965
Radio-TV Experimenter
"Chromatron Comes to Color TV"
2.04 MB pdf file)
Sears Fall/Winter 1964 Catalog
YAOU Color Portable
has 7-1/2 inch screen, single-gun picture tube
TV's Only Silent Star
TV Guide 28 April 1956
RCA Ad Supplement