First match televised in colour?

Nanison

i recently bought the england - West germany world cup final 1966 in colour.

I heard the match was black and white originally. Does anyone have a clue how they remake the tape in colour?

The oldest match in colour i find on youtube is the 1962 Fa cup final between Spurs and Burnley

Is it possible to "colour" matches as old as let's say the 1930's?

peterstorey

The 66 World Cup was also filmed in technicolor for the cinema and released as a feature film - that's probably what you've got. People have tried recoloring ordinary movies over the years it always looks shit in my opinion but then I quite like b&w.

Murphman

The film was called goal. The first game I ever watched in colour on tv was 1971 when an emerging Liverpool with rising young starts like Steve Heighway were robbed of the FA Cup by that loppy haired waster Charlie George.

The cunt.

peterstorey

Fuck off. Bob Wilson gave you a goal start and we still beat you.

Murphman

Heighway mugged him off, it wasn't his fault. He was fucking great was Heighway, so was Ray Kennedy.

Thanks.....

jasonrh

Just so's you know, there was no terrestial UK colour TV until 1967 when BBC2 began partial colour broadcasting.

Remote broadcasting came later, but even then videotape is expensive, and was often erased and reused. Early on they would both copy the best of the moments onto colour VT for broadcast, but also onto black and white film for preservation.

Only by the mid 1970s would they always make sure to copy onto a second VT.

That is, when they bothered to keep anything from a match at all...

manux399

That's the first one I remember but I think the Leeds / Chelsea may have been in colour but didn't watch that as no interest.

Think a lot of us young un's after that game were doing impressions of Charlie George hitting the winner for a day or so...!!!

redman5

First colour televised match on MOTD was Liverpool v West Ham on 15th November 1969.

peterstorey

Heighway was a pudding haired twat with a noncey tache, half way up his own arse because he went to college. Ray Kennedy was a very good player for us and an even better one for you, poor bastard's got Parkinson's now.

Murphman

Heighway was worth roughly the same as your entire feckin team by 1974. I was going strong with a Gooner at the time, we're still very good friends actually, her Mum and dad went to Wembley in 1971 whist we watched the game on her telly. I went to the arsenal supporters Club bash in Tottenham Court road and got Geordie Armstrong (RIP) into a conversation about Heighway. He admitted begrudgingly and eventually Stevie was the fastest thing on two legs, I also met Peter Simpson who was also a nice fella.

I went to Arsenal v Lazio when they Clock End showered the Lazio players with pennies (Lazio had attacked the arsenal coach in Rome with bricks and bottles and I was there in 1973 when Roger Kirkpatrick disallowed Toshack's 'winner' in the 91st minute and gave Derby the leage. It was the most pathetic and diabolical referreing I've ever seen and we should be saying 19-5 now. The baldy cunt.