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Originally Posted by Carmine
The world wasn't actually in B&W back then was it? I had an ex-girlfriend who used to think that as a kid... Like somebody got up on a podium and proclaimed "Henceforth, the world shall be in COLOR!"
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Hahahaha, I have to admit I thought the same when I was a little boy at the age of 10/11, I use to think the real world was B&W prior to decimal currency in Australia in 1966 (Australia actually had B&W TV until late 1974) even though I saw the 1939 famous colour film "Wizard Of Oz" countless number of times as I never knew the date of it at the time and my mum told me she saw it in B&W when she was a kid and said it was colourized later on (so she thought hehehe) when it was originally in colour hehehehe. Anyways yeah as a kid our imaginations and lack of understanding of reality makes us think things like that. But yeah as I got older I understood that was never the case at all and as I studied TV history I thought "Wow, colour television started in 1954!!!" And even after finding that out, up until a few years ago I use to think live colour and B&W television back prior to the 60s was of scratchy film quality until I found out that in those days up until the late 50s all shows were kinescoped to film using a control monitor and film camera chain and videotape recording started in the fall of 1956, and researching into what videos exist of the 50s, a few B&W and colour tapes still survive and have been restored to digital medium and when I found out about the "An Evening With Fred Astaire" show from late 1958 colour videotaped and saw the trailer on Kris Trexler's site, I thought "WOW colour was really THAT good back then", and of course a few years later I got a bootleg DVD copy of all 3 Fred Astaire specials on Ebay which were recorded from the Disney Channel and seeing them, I have to say living colour back then looks practically almost to as good as living colour today but with much more interesting style of colour tones from the 3 tube IO RCA TK-41 cameras and the purple halos on the spotlights look awesome!!! So yeah your quote has made me blab on about my experience of learning about colour television history and my thrill of seeing early live colour shows like the Fred Astaire specials and that last episode of Howdy Doody is like looking through a window of time seeing what reality looked like almost 50 years ago, when it comes to experiencing historical time travel, early colour shows videotaped in colour gives you the most realistic experience opposed to films, it's just awesome!!! Lastly, what also really amazed me was that video effects technology was also there in the 50s as on the 1958 Fred Astaire special blue screen chromakey effects were used and also on that Howdy Doody colour special from 1960 Clarabell had the "magic blue paint" which videos get keyed into it and also that show used the picture ripple effect too. The television technology boom was all there in the 50s!!!
Cheers
Troy