Dwight Eisenhower dedication to WRC-TV May 22 1958 presentation available on Veoh.com

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Originally Posted by Sandy G

Thanks ! That "'splains" it...I'd kinda thought it was just me...Its REALLY evident in images from the JFK assasination/funeral, along w/obvious optical distortions, people look "pulled" or "squashed"....Funny, you didn't see the "optical" artifacts when color came along, either...I never recall seeing the "edges" of the lens in a colorcast like you do so often in the old B&W work...

B&W cameras would often be run overscanned even on the air. Overscanning was used to prevent burning a raster into the image orthicons. However, image orthicon color cameras weren't pristine out to the corners either, as can be seen if you look at the color Howdy Doody show on a 16x9 set, which shows the complete 4x3 picture with nothing hidden in overscan on the left or right.