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ccsj-116	Valentini, Paola	Society in colour: Italian television and the switch to colour	2015	5	.pdf	application/pdf	4419	140	50	Cultura e Scienza del Colore - Color Culture and Science 3104/15 | Cultura e Scienza del Colore - Color Culture and Science 1 Paola Valentini paola.valentini@unifi.it 1 AGAS Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Art and Performance Arts, University of Florence, Italy Society in colour: Italian television and the switch to colour While Italy was proudly celebrating the advent of its own television system on 3 January 1954 and the first official broadcasts were starting to go out, at around the same time, the United States saw the arrival of colour television. Indeed, in December 1953, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the standard for colour television set out by the National Television System Committee (the same one that established the 525 line standard in 1941).	cache/ccsj-116.pdf	txt/ccsj-116.txt