Il y a 50 ans, la télévision française passait à la couleur-Alvinet

50 years ago, television switched to color
 

Il y a 50 ans, la télévision française passait à la couleur-Alvinet

Four standing men, looking gravely before a calm stylistic layout, from which rise some more striking spots, contemporary furniture orange and green: this is the principal shading picture communicate on French TV 50 years prior.

On October 1, 1967, the Minister of Information, the Gaulist Georges Gorse, initiated face to face the principal shading program in the studios of the youthful French TV channel (ORTF), which exists for a long time. "What's more, here is the shading, on the selected day and at the designated hour!" He dispatches to the watchers.

The sky blue coat and the clergyman's red tie at that point show up, standing out from the anthracite outfits and the dull mines of the three ORTF pioneers who encompass him, including Jacques-Bernard Dupont. The modest bunch of watchers, having one of these new posts utilizing the French shading broadcasting framework, Sécam.

1500 special shading TV

"I realize that for the minute our shading pictures are just available to a special few and that they are still of a specific classified nature," recognizes the pastor. By far most of the eight million TVs in France are in highly contrasting: just 1,500 stations are in shading, as indicated by Ina.

"The program, which is communicated today, is over each of the a running-in program," AFP detailed. "Notwithstanding the news, it incorporates a report, a film, L'eau vive whose outsides were handed over shading in Haute-Provence on the banks of the Durance, documentaries on craftsmanship, a toon, assortments, and so on . "Says the organization.

The shading will continuously force on the little screen. The third French direct will be communicated in shading since its creation toward the finish of 1972. Be that as it may, it was not until the late 1970s and mid 1980s that the main channel (which moved toward becoming TF1 in 1975) ended up plainly shading after stage modernization of its system of backers.

Aggressive specialized development

The entry of shading speaks to a modern and political stake for France of General de Gaulle. Since the 1950s, the United States has been utilizing its own shading broadcasting innovation, the National Television System Committee (NTSC). In any case, the American framework is of average quality: it is nicknamed Never Twice the Same Color ("never double a similar shading") in reference to the flimsiness of the hues on the screens.

In 1956, a French architect Henri de France built up a more steady process, the Sécam framework (for shading successive memory) while the German gathering Telefunken built up its own particular standard, Pal, got from the American framework. "Gaullian strategy will make misuse of this French innovation one of its fight steeds," clarifies Pascal Rozat, guide at the INA.

The Sécam standard was received by the USSR in October 1967, the main communicates of shading pictures were made all the while in Paris and Moscow. Be that as it may, it neglects to force itself in Western Europe where the Pal framework spreads all around. The segregation of the French standard will end with the entry of perfect Pal/Sécam gadget in the 80s.