More early colour TV show questions

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Re: The Berle shows. The TV listings for New York, Washington, DC and Chicago note the show as being in color. The LA Times listings don't. What likely happened was it was colorcast live to the Eastern and Central timezones and kinescoped in black-and-white for the west coast. This happened all the time--and was the reason NBC started using the "lenticular color" kinescopes. They were used pretty frequently for a couple of years until color tape came in. (Every so often the LA Times TV critic complained about their poor quality.) I have no idea if that or any other of the lenticular kines survives. I do know that Film Technology in LA figured out how to transfer early Kodacolor lenticular film, which is basically the predecessor of these kinescopes, to video in full color. Theoretically, if anyone came across one of these lenticular kines and had the time and money, it ought to be a relatively similar process. I think.