CBS color film about show of shows studio rehearsal.

[old_tv_nut]

The possibility of colorization never dawned on me.

The loss of color on the wings could be due to the undersides being pale, but colorization would explain it quite well too. It just boggles my mind that anyone would bother to colorize this, and then to lean on red and green like that. Colorization would not have been possible with this accuracy at the time, so if CBS wanted to send this out as publicity in color, it would have to be color originally.

At 08:15, the closeup of the control panel shows the red, green and blue knobs in differentiated colors, but the reds are dark and the blues are very dark and only slightly blue. At 11:31, Fredrick March's neckware appears orangish compared to his face. This kind of thing leads me to say restored, not colorized.

I wonder if prints like this one were duped on very contrasty film, then faded, and were restored like this?

The poster's channel has a number of historical films, all in monochrome except one in natural color and this one in odd color. I have left him a question and hope he replies.