Go-to films for demonstration/test bench purposes?

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by benman94

That's because for most of the series, they filmed it with actual film a la "I Love Lucy". They did a brief experiment with taping the show using B/W IO cameras, editing on tape, then creating a "higher quality" kinescope from the final tape and using that. Those episodes generally look terrible.

Wasn't the Dumont Electronicam a similar process?
That was used on the Honeymooner's and the picture quality was a little lacking.
The Desilou studios productions like The Untouchables seemed to be good quality.

[benman94]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Wasn't the Dumont Electronicam a similar process?
That was used on the Honeymooner's and the picture quality was a little lacking.
The Desilou studios productions like The Untouchables seemed to be good quality.

Electronicam was different in that the camera head used a splitter to direct half the light to a traditional film camera (I believe an Arriflex was adapted for this purpose) and the other half to an electronic television camera.

For the Twilight Zone, the episodes were shot with a video camera, the tape was used for network broadcast originally, but then kinescopes were made from the tape for syndication. The experiment was a dismal failure, and was only used for a handful of episodes total.