Colour Strike Colour Strike The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at all ITV companies from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971 (although some shows made during this period in black and white were having their first transmission as late as December 1971) who, due to a pay dispute with their management, refused to work with colour television equipment. At that time ITV had recently switched to colour transmissions, requiring the individual companies to invest heavily in new equipment. Early colour television studio cameras consisted of four tubes to relay the picture: three were receptive to colour (red, green
Cotton Candy grapes Cotton Candy grapes Cotton Candy grapes are a variety of grapes produced in California by Grapery, which became available for consumers to buy in 2011. Grapery was founded by Jack Pandol and is owned by him and Jim Beagle. At International Fruit Genetics, fruit geneticist David Cain developed their patented Cotton Candy grapes and other varieties by using hand-pollination to cross pollinate millions of grapes to develop the desirable varieties. Experiments were done to try to combine concord grapes, known for their flavor, with Vitis vinifera in order to make them firm. A hundred thousand plants were created and grown