question about early color tv

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Originally Posted by GeorgeJetson

Hi,
I have often heard people describe early color televisions as having "saccharin colors"
Why was this? Were the colors much more saturated and beautiful?

Since we're on the subject of color,why was it that the old films like "Artists & Models" with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis and 1963's "The Nutty Professor" have dazzling beautiful colors that really explode on screen and then by the late 60's the films all looked dingy,grainy and washed out?

I would have posted this second question in a film area but couldn't find it.

Both films, Artists And Models, and The Nutty Professor, were shot in Technicolor. Technicolor stopped doing this process in the early 1970's.

You should see an original Technicolor 35mm print in a theatre. The color will knock your socks off!!