On April 1st 1962, Kell Stensson appeared on Swedish T.V. to explain how you could exploit the moiré effect to turn black and white television into 256
color. All you needed
was a pair of nylon stockings.
Kell said that best of all were the newly introduced tights. He proceeded to demonstrate how you could tune the television by pulling the
tights over the screen. He claimed that 25 denier worked best. 40 denier caused the picture to go very dark. We have to remember that television sets were smaller in the 1960s, so it was
then possible to stretch nylons over those little screens.
It was rumoured that insiders bought shares in stockings immediately before the broadcast, but this was never proved. What did happen was that thousands
of people gave it a try. As we know, this technique has no chance of working, however it did give con men ideas.
In England, several of my family were taken in by fake color sheets of plastic.
Smooth salesmen claimed that their gadget would turn black
and white television instantly into color sets.'
Just fix our plastic over the screen and see everything in color'
, they said. In fact, all you got was a sort of green tinge, it made clouds seem
like a chemical gas attack.
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TV Quotes
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing
is well-done. Fred Allen
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home. David Frost
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