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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut
CBS did not have color kinescoping or lenticular film at that time. The dots only got recorded because they failed to insert a chroma notch filter in the video feed. That was apparently fixed soon after, and no further dotty kinescope films were made, as far as anyone knows.
Side note: Ed Reitan was interested in restoring some lenticular recordings. He kept promising to send me a frame of color bars to work with, but never got around to it. Apparently, he was very close-mouthed about any ideas of his and only revealed them to maybe one person he thought could help. He had an idea that the lenticular film might be scanned on a flatbed scanner or dedicated slide scanner at high resolution and the stripes separated by computer processing. I tried to convince him that a slide projector and color filter would not only be simpler, but would work better. I had read about someone who was involved with lenticular and gave talks demonstrating it with a slide projector and filter. At the dramatic point, he would put the filter on the projector, changing the image to color. Whatever samples Ed had, got lost after his death.
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Lenticular Kodacolor can definitely be restored: vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWldGxHKqw
Question is whether lenticular kinescopes also used the same vertical line structure for the lenticles. NBC definitely used it for a few years; somewhere around here I have the SMPTE Journal article about it. Also a couple of TV columns where they criticize how grubby the lenticular kines looked in the West Coast feed. Of course a modern restoration could get a lot more information out of the film than a 1956 film chain. Supposedly there are some lenticular kinescopes in the Jerry Lewis collection at the Library of Congress but I'm not sure (and that collection is going to take years to process...)
Jeff M.
Chicago, IL