The famous 1965 Shea Stadium show was filmed in colour by the BBC.

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The Royal Academy show, Masters of Colour: From Derain to Kandinsky, runs from 27 July to 17 November in London.

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The exhibition includes a dramatic series of works by Kandinsky that show his journey from colour to abstraction between the years 1908 - 1911.

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Get through that covering layer and the underlying slivery colour of the aluminium itself will show through the black layer.

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Windows with the shutters and curtains closed show up in the images in a deep blue colour, demonstrating little heat is escaping.

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Director of Municipal Services Debra D'Orleans said the idea came at a trade show when a supplier said they could have trucks in any colour.

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Even so, it would seem that full colour, fully flexible displays that can switch fast enough to show video are still some way off.

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The car on show was one of last year's Brawn cars in the new 2010 colour scheme.

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The vessels on display here show how the Venetians emulated the Islamic art of enamelling glass in gold and colour.

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However, instead of each pixel representing a colour, as in the image on a screen, these readings show all the different chemical compounds present in each of the thousands of tiny patches that together make up the sample.

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Dr McCreary says he has monochrome displays in the laboratory that can show video at 20 frames per second, and later this year the firm plans to demonstrate a colour display for the first time.

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