First Color Cartoons started in the 40's which i believe studios started using Cinecolor which later got Better in the 50's with Technicolor
OK, but who was seeing them in color ? If you went to a movie theater in 1947 the film would have to be B&W, right ?
I don't think people had Color TV sets until like 1965 -1970 or so , when shows went color. Leave it to Beaver was not in color, sort of early 60's. Star trek was color ...late 60's. I'm pretty sure this revolution was going down right around 1965.
So watched Bugs Bunny in color in 1952 ? and how ?
I was born in 1963. I remember my parents getting a "25" color console TV" in maybe 1973 or so. The thing was huge and probably cost like $2,000 or something back then....maybe half the price of a cheap new car like a Pinto ? They didn't even have remote controls. There was some box thing to change channels ( almost as big as a laptop) with a wire running back to the set.....
that was the earliest cable in a suburban town called Guilford, ct. Before that early cable we had a giant antenna on the roof with a rotor. The antenna was turned in the direction ( via a motor) of the signal you were trying to receive.
It was like something you'd see on a ship.
North for Hartford
West for NY
etc.
and the big rooftop antenna moved to point that way. You got maybe 8 channels, 3 of them solidly. early cable was a revolution on that 25" color console unit. Funny now how it being huge was a sales point, like YEAH, I want a big heavy TV set that fills my living room covered with ugly shag carpeting covering the beautiful hardwood floor beneath it !
