[4K, 60 fps, color] (1958) The oldest color video tape recording: President Dwight Eisenhower.

This video is the oldest surviving color videotape recording. A camera crew recorded this on May 22, 1958. In the video President Dwight Eisenhower dedicates NBC’s WRC-TV new color television studios in Washington D.C. They used 2 inch wide videotape which played in a two-inch quadruplex videotape machine. Quad employed a transverse four-head system which scanned the two-inch tape across its width. Separate linear heads recorded the sound track. Join as a member to support this channel: