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Introduction / Guidebook Press Release / Photos The RCA Pavilion "See Yourself on Color TV" Parting Shots 2.06.04

RCA introduced black-and-white television when it broadcast Franklin Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair. Now, see yourself on color TV at RCA's 1964 World's Fair Color Television Communication Center in Wayne Bretl's feature presentation. Fairgoers may see themselves on color television and watch a working TV station broadcasting programs to the Fair. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B9 The pavilion houses the Fair's official Color Television Communications Center; its studio is linked to more than 200 color TV sets around the fairgrounds. TV AT WORK. Visitors may watch all the activities of the studio through a glass panel and ascend a ramp above the control room to see a director and his technicians at work. YOURSELF ON TV. Near the entrance to the pavilion, visotors may also walk by a unique "color carousel" and see themselves on color television twice, once "live" as they pass the camera, and moments later on TV tape. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book