[Carmine]

I've been watching a lot of older movies on the free subchannels (Movies!, This, Grit, and so forth). One re-occurring theme seems to be re-coloring B&W sets into color.

I can understand why they might do this on a 60's TV show (12" color security monitors on Mission Impossible? Me thinks not.) But I would think, and have heard, that movie studios hated television during the 50s. In fact, that's why they did all the wide-screen and color spectaculars... to make TV seem crappy by comparison. Yet in many of these movies, they'll show a rectangular set with a great color picture; something that didn't even exist in real life.

I wonder why. Have a look at this Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis movie. Anybody have a guess what kind of set this is? The logo looks like it could either be Magnavox or Zenith. It almost looks like a prototype set.