Early Bell Telephone Hour Color Video

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Originally Posted by kvflyer

So, was that live color to video tape and then a copy to YouTube, or video tape to film and then to YouTube do you know? Just wondering...

My judgement of the video characteristics of the Music Man clip is that there was no film involved; however there was evidently a transfer to helical tape, judging by the flag-waving and color dropouts at the top of the picture. The youtube picture quality is low enough that it's hard to tell if the helical tape was VHS or something more professional.