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
Colour Blind (film) is no longer conscious of Dan's skin colour. The film then switches to Dan's perspective, where John is shown in Golliwog make-up, blackface and frizzy wig, speaking in what the makers of the film refer to as "wigger" – a white person's appropriated use of black language and mannerisms. Dan sees white men as constantly parodying his race. The film was written by Amanda Baker, who has written and directed with a number of stand-up comedians including Reginald D Hunter. The producer, Paul Atherton, made the decision to have the white lead in (blackface make-up) to make the point in