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The Forgotten War for Color Television

Filmmaker IQ (01.02.2020)

Today we know that 29.97 fps is a hallmark of NTSC video. We may even know the mathematical reasoning behind it. But the war for color television that birthed that oddball number, a war that raged for over a decade and left an imprint on the soul of electronic moving pictures has been largely forgotten…

 

This retelling owes a great deal to an article posted at the Museum of Early Television https://www.earlytelevision.org/color…

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