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If you want to spend a few bucks, the DVD of the B&W 1957 kine is available at Amazon;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=UTF8&v=glance

And if you want a color copy of the 1965 color remake (unknown if it is a kine or a tape copy) of the same with Lesley Ann Warren as Cinderella, Amazon has it also;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...v=glance&n=130

Check the second listing and find the sale price for both.

Good night and good luck,

Dave A

I say to heck with the crappy Kine version, get this one instead:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...s=dvd&v=glance

It truly does look spectacular!

While we've got our thinking caps on, I STILL think I remember seeing back in the '70s, a special on Early TV that had Marlene Dietrich singing "Lili Marlene", & it was supposed to be one of the first color telecasts in 1949...It looked like a kine, and the color kinda went back & forth between being washed out & saturated. There really wasn't much color, just Marlene's flesh-tones. Maybe it was some experimental thing..Seems like the show was on CBS, maybe it was a demonstration of their field-sequential system or something.-Sandy G.

You know, it's funny but there was a site a few years ago that had a very short online clip of what was supposed to be a 1940's CBS color kine, except that they were unable to identify the subject... which I seem to recall was a close-up of a blonde woman. Wonder if that's the same clip?

Along these same lines, I was just recently told about a reel of film that was found on Ebay, which contained two 1954 COLOR kinescope clips from NBC (though they were badly faded)-- a few minutes of an episode of the Dinah Shore Show, complete with a chopped-up but heretofore unknown NBC color ident, voiced by Hugh Downs; and the opening minutes of an episode of Eddie Fisher's "Coke Time", from March of 1954.

Impossible things **are** happening every day!! :D

-Kevin

modern marvels on the history channel
 

If you get a chance to see television on modern marvels on the history channel they show a short film clip of very early CBS color on that program.

Is this the one? (link below) It's Patty Painter on CBS sequential color.
In an email from Patty's daughter, Alexis Ward, in November 2003, she said "That is the first color TV demonstration for the FCC in 1946. She was 19 at the time."

http://home.att.net/~pldexnis/video/...dSequential.rm

[QUOTE=Joel Cairo]You know, it's funny but there was a site a few years ago that had a very short online clip of what was supposed to be a 1940's CBS color kine, except that they were unable to identify the subject... which I seem to recall was a close-up of a blonde woman. Wonder if that's the same clip?

I believe the clip you are referring to is the one at this site:

http://home.att.net/~pldexnis/potpourri1/lastpage4.html

The subject was Patty Painter, who was known in the forties as CBS' "Miss Color Television". The site has a message from her daughter explaining Patty's activities at CBS. Buff Cobb and Mike Wallace also were frequent color TV models at CBS in the forties.

that's the clip that I saw on the modern marvel episode on the History Channel.

Yep-- that's the clip I saw as well. Thanks for the additional info!!

-Kevin

I remember in the early sixties CBS also snuck in some color episodes of LASSIE on Sunday night. There were only a couple that I remember.

Do you remember if Lassie was with Timmy's family or the rangers? I wouldn't be surprised if exact airdates of those special color eps are somewhere on the internet.

Timmy.

Hmmm...so far no reference found to any color broadcast of Lassie prior to 9/12/65 premiere of season 12 when it was all-color from then on.

I do recall watching at least one color Lassie during 1963 and 1964. Back in the days before CBS went all-color, early in the season a show would be hyped as being In Color. I remember thinking at the time that a B&W TV owner would think the entire season was in color.

It was in that time period that CBS used the color bloodshot eye logo; my reaction when I saw it back then was that it was both clever and weird!

They did a Perry Mason in color too. I ran across it one day, wondering why the heck Perry was flesh colored! I wish they had done at least one show in color on some other shows too like I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners. And glad some they DIDN'T, like The Twilight Zone! : )