Did color exist before the 1960s?

Question

Since we have no documented evidence (TV was only in black and white prior to this) how can we be sure that color existed before the 1960s?

Isn't it possible that paintings were touched up with color the same way they added color to movies and television?

Answer 1

How about paintings, color photographs, and Technicolor movies? You could go into the argument that color does not exist and is, in fact, how our brains interpret certain frequencies of light. However, if you use that argument, color still does not exist even today.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Oh yes, American colour TV. NTSC it was called, developed in the late 1940s and said to stand for "Never Twice Same Color". Pathetic in comparison to the later European PAL systems, but probably not too bad for the 1940s.

As soon as colour was invented people rushed around touching up all the artwork of the past 5000 years. That included old Egyptian tomb paintings that had not then been officially discovered. They had to be careful in some places since the art was worn and weathered so they had to make the color look faded. They also had to dig up all the buried pottery soldiers in that old Chinese emperor's grave and do those as well. Then ten years later that was officially discovered. It was a really big job and cost more than the Y2K bug, the Apollo Program and both World Wars put together.

On the other hand, how can I be sure that you exist?

Answer 4

No. color existed all the time and was discovered earlier. If you have seen a rainbow in the sky, you would not have asked this question. Who touched it up? Similarly prisms which could split the white light into various colors existed for humndreds of years. Thin oil films which show color existed for many centuries. And nature has so much color to show you, if only you are aware and willing to see.

Answer 5

Are you asking about color TV? I think the engineers was working to develop a feasible and economic color TV many years before the sixties..

I you are asking about the eyes, we know from the cell in our eyes that are capable of see the colors. This is not a mutation after the sixties. Many different animals can see the colors too.

Answer 6

The Red Sea was documented before 1960's.

Answer 7

No before the 60's they drugged the food so it would give a sensation that was like seeing color but sadly was not. In the 60's people started too divert from conforming society and stopped eating the processed food.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Actually colour does not even exist today! Visible light arrives in different frequencies and what we see as col or is only the reflected light of certain frequencies, what appears to be a yellow shirt is nothing more than a monotone object that has a surface that absorbs all frequencies of light except that of yellow. A surface that absorbs all light appears as black. We live in a strange world.

Answer 10

Ask someone who is colourblind.

IF a tree fell down in a wood with no-one to hear it falling would it make a noise?

Obviously we are all just living in a matrix, so really there is nothing at all and the words you are reading now are a figment of somebody else's imagination (you don't know this yet)