Oldest entertainment program known to survive on color VT.

[John Green]

"Recently, the UCLA Film & Television Archive got hold of a rare video and they did a restoration on it. It's an episode of the Kraft Music Hall and it's the oldest entertainment program known to survive on color videotape. The show aired October 8, 1958 on NBC and to be honest, it ain't all that wonderful. But it does have a cameo appearance by Bob Hope, a musical number featuring Lou Jacobi and the opening has a few moments from The Price is Right when it was hosted by Bill Cullen. And it's a piece of history…" www.newsfromme.com/

[sonnybh]

I had heard some of the earliest taped color footage was coverage of a golf tournament from 1959.