When did the Stones go from Black & White to Colo(u)r?

About 1965.

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Silver Dagger
About 1965.

Wasn't it 1966 for the States and 1969 for us Brits? When did Australia finally get coloured T.V.? I've seen 70's footage of the Stones and Zeppelin that's still shot in black and white.

Still, the number of British households that owned coloured sets in 1969, must have fairly low.

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2000 LYFH
When did the Stones go from Black & White to Colo(u)r?

February 13, 1966.






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Or maybe not ....

In Keith's opinion, 1956 was when the WORLD went from black-and-white to color.

"It was almost like A.D. and B.C., and 1956 was year one ... The world was black-and-white, and then suddenly it went into living color. Suddenly there was a reason to be around." -- from What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations with a Rock and Roll Survivor by Jessica Pallington West

Amen to that!

Drew

A lot earlier than people think. Wasn't the 1952 coronation ceremony for the Queen in the UK shot in color?

The first U.S. nation-wide color television broadcast was in 1954, even though color television had its beginnings in the 1940s, and the first U.S. TV broadcast in color was in 1951. There were around 350,000 color TV sets in the U.S. by 1958. The trend grew in the early 60s, and the tipping point for the "color revolution" is generally acknowledged as 1965.

"CBS presents this program in color" logo from 1965:





By 1966 in the U.S., television shows were making their debut in color:









Color TV fun facts at: [www.tvobscurities.com]

The ABC color television logo from 1962:





The CBS color television logo from 1958:





A working reproduction of a 1951 CBS Columbia color television set (Model CC2) with a color wheel inside:





Interesting how Keith calls those early years as being "black and white" because in the Who documentary Amazing Journey Roger Daltrey also says the same thing about post-war England: "It was like the world was in black and white."

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stonehearted
A lot earlier than people think. Wasn't the 1952 coronation ceremony for the Queen in the UK shot in color?

The coronation was in 1953 and the TV broadcast was most certainly in black and white but it was filmed in colour to be shown in cinemas.










"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

As for the Stones themselves, in the U.S. it seems to be 1966 when the Ed Sullivan show went from B&W to color. In the UK they didn't do much television at all between '67 and '69, and strangely their '68 David Frost appearance was in B&W, whereas the Beatles doing Hey Jude at around the same time was in color. The following June they appeared on Frost once again, this time in color.

So for the whole band in a color TV setting in the UK it would seem to be 1969, however Mick Jagger was interviewed in color in 1968 for The Sound of Change, where sociologists Stuart Hall and Peter Worsley examine the pop scene of the time (recorded March 26, 1968; aired Tuesday, September 10 on BBC2 from 8:00 to 8:50 p.m.).



One Plus One (recorded June 4 to 10, 1968) was reviewed on the BBC2 arts program Release on November 30, one night following its premiere. One would presume that color clips would have been included as part of the broadcast.



Also, the promo clips for Jumping Jack Flash and Child Of The Moon were filmed in color and would have been presented as such were they shown on UK TV--a clip from Child Of The Moon was shown in the Tony Palmer film All My Loving from 1968, which was a color movie shown on UK television (first shown on BBC1 Sunday on November 3, 1968 in B&W, then on BBC2 Sunday on May 21, 1969 in color). The promo film We Love You was also filmed in color in 1967. All Stones TV appearances in 1965 were in B&W.

Even in 1969, the debut screening of Stones In The Park was in B&W (ITV, Tuesday September 10), but was shown in color later in the year (Granada, Saturday November 15).

The UK show Top Of The Pops only made the transition from B&W to color as late as November 27, 1969.

1964 - A Hard Day's Night - B&W
July 29, 1965 - Help! - color
Stones = Beatles + 6 months.
= January 29, 1966.
1st Stones release after January 29, 1966 = ....
19th Nervous Breakdown. (released Feb 4, 1966)
However... it was recorded Dec, 1965.
Therefore, 19th would technically be the last Stones release in B&W,
The 1st recording sessions after Jan 29, 66 would be the Mar 6-9 sessions @ RCA, so any of the following are candidates...
Flight 505, High & Dry, I Am Waiting, It's Not Easy, If You Let Me, Lady Jane,
Long Long While, Out of Time, Paint it Black, Stupid Girl, Under My Thumb, What To Do.
The first song recorded AND released after Jan 29, 1966 would be..
Paint it Black/Stupid Girl. Released on...

May 13, 1966.

That is my best educated guess.

<<When did Australia finally get coloured T.V.?>>

Midnight, March 1, 1975--this, despite the fact that the first experimental TV broadcast in Australia was done as far back as 1929, though television wasn't commercially introduced until 1956.

There isn't a simple on this day type answer.

Going by this Wikipedia entry, it would appear that the first colour transmission on British television took place on July 1, 1967. It was later that same year when BBC 2 first introduced a ‘full’ colour service. BBC1 and ITV, however, did not transmit in colour until November 15, 1969.
I must admit, I always thought it was 1969 - at least, it’s the year that seems to get mentioned - but certainly, many in the U.K. did not own a colour television set at this time.

[en.wikipedia.org]

For Keith it must have been sometime after Heartbreak Hotel was released in the first month of 1956




Keith Richards - LIFE page 58 ...................



ROCKMAN

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stonehearted
As for the Stones themselves, in the U.S. it seems to be 1966 when the Ed Sullivan show went from B&W to color.

The Ed Sullivan Show went to color on Oct. 31, 1965, not long after the final "live" appearance of the Beatles, which was actually taped on Aug. 14 (the night before the Shea Stadium concert), but not broadcast until Sept. 12.






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Big Al
Going by this Wikipedia entry, it would appear that the first colour transmission on British television took place on July 1, 1967. It was later that same year when BBC 2 first introduced a ‘full’ colour service. BBC1 and ITV, however, did not transmit in colour until November 15, 1969.
I must admit, I always thought it was 1969 - at least, it’s the year that seems to get mentioned - but certainly, many in the U.K. did not own a colour television set at this time.

[en.wikipedia.org]

The first colour episode of The Avengers was broadcast in the UK on 14 January 1967.






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tatters


The first colour episode of The Avengers was broadcast in the UK on 14 January 1967.

I don't doubt it was filmed in colour, but was it actually broadcast in colour?

The Wikipedia entry does state that many British programs were filmed in colour for foreign markets that already had colour television before the U.K. The United States, for example.



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This informative piece states that it was July 1967's Wimbledon tennis that was the first colour broadcast anywhere in Europe.

[www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk]

^ Interesting piece on the history of UK television there. The inventor Baird (John Logie) is significant because transmissions from his "televisor" are shown in the earliest known photograph (c. 1926) of televised images.


The world's first television "star", Oliver Hutchinson, Baird's business partner.

The term "television" dates back to 1900, and the first television system was patented in 1884. TV was inevitable, once images could be retained in photographs and pictures could be made to appear to "move" in film, so it was only a matter of time before metals and electronics would converge so that images could be transmitted, scanned, and displayed almost simultaneously.

The below-footage is rather incredible :-

I’m not certain whether this footage is genuine colour, or if it is the colouring-in effect they used to use. Either way, its splendid footage from a time when the world was oh, so very different.

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tatters
Or maybe not ....

That's the one.

Luton Sept 9, 1964 shoud be the first colour video; it's 12 days older than Kingston Upon Hull.

The Stones also appeared in color on American TV in November 1966 on the Hullabaloo program. Unfortunately the idiots at NBC wiped the videotapes to use again and only crap kinescopes exist of the performance.

Just watched some 1971 hockey footage Boston/Montreal which was still done in black and white.