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March 1954:
Here the world's first production color sets are tweaked at the RCA factory.
The first ever NTSC national telecast had only just been the Rose Bowl
Parade Jan. 1, 1954. These sets didn't sell. The round 15" picture tube
had a flat plate inside for the tricolor dot screen which was masked down
to a tiny picture. By December 1954 RCA had already switched to the familiar
21" round tube with the dots applied directly to the front glass. 
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