Step inside the Philips plant in Clayton, Victoria, for a rare behind-the-scenes look at how colour television sets were made in Australia. This clip, from Australian Movie Magazine No. 7436, captures the precision and craftsmanship behind manufacturing these cutting-edge TVs as the nation embraced the shift from black and white to colour.

On 1 March 1975, Australian television flickered into a new era – glorious, a bit garish and, honestly, not before time. While the US had colour TV from the mid-1950s and the UK from 1967, we had to wait until 1975! The lead-up was pure spectacle: ‘colour-monster’ panic, last-minute technical tweaks, and the small matter of making sure news anchors didn’t look radioactive. It was a revolution in living rooms and on soundstages alike – a shift as thrilling as it was chaotic.

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Source : https://archive.org/details/episode_724

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Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLKP2PmNG0

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