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40 Years and 2 Seconds

2007-08-25

…since color TV has been started in Germany – activated on Aug 25, 1967 at 10:57 by Willy Brandt on the IFA. Or rather by an engineer – two seconds before the big red button has been properly pushed down (and all that apparently three minutes earlier than originally planned)…

:tvlustig:

The ZDF has a video clip about it.

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