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Thursday, 10 August 2017

monochrome t-5

My SpaceX T-5 Tractor on my home-made moon surface.

Monochrome always gives photo's of toys an authentic vintage look I feel.

Do you like black and white toy photos?

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Tony K8/10/2017 8:12 am
Yes, I do like black & white pix, Woodsy. They remind me of the time as a kid, before we had a colour telly, when a lot of popluar TV shows and movies were still shot in monochrome. That is a nice pic by the way :)
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Paul Adams from New Zealand2/21/2020 1:58 am
As I have mentioned before, black and white television only arrived in NZ in 1960, opening first in the four main centres (the four largest cities). Auckland was first in 1960, followed by Christchurch and Wellington in 1961, and Dunedin in 1962. There was no national network at this stage, but the stations ran the same programmes in succession, a week apart, as they were moved from centre to centre. There were gaps in the schedule for the insertion of local programmes. All broadcasting was a state-run affair in those days, with television coming under the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. Colour television arrived in NZ in November 1973, just in time for the 10th Commonwealth Games, which were held in Christchurch in January-February 1974. A second channel only arrived in 1975, still state-run. Private television only appeared much later, after deregulation.
We did not have a colour TV set until a good many years after the arrival of colour transmissions, as colour was much more expensive to buy or rent than a black and white set. Our first colour set must have been either very late 1970s, or more likely early 1980s. I only got my first VCR in 1991, and later a DVD player. Love DVDs. Given these dates, I grew up watching Gerry Anderson (Stingray onwards), Doctor Who, Star Trek, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible, The Avengers, and lots of Westerns. There were also a lot of old movies on TV in those days, from the 1930s to the 1950s. As there was only one channel, and no choice, I watched everything from John Wayne to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Very little in the way of SF on NZ TV in those days, and almost no horror. Later the odd Hammer or Amicus late at night, but I was not a horror fan in those days, only discovering Universal and Hammer much later.
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