1957' broadcast of Cinderella on CBS? IN COLOR!!

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by Steve Hoffman

Kev,

I believe the tape was bulked the week after broadcast.

So the B&W tape was just used for the west coast replay and the Kine was used for archival reasons?

How would a 1958 B&W videotape have compared in quality to a kinescope, (assuming a 47 year old videotape, not when it was new)

As bad as Kines can be I suppose were lucky they used them at all or we might not have ANY vintage live TV shows.

[Steve Hoffman]

A B&W videotape from that era would have looked truly wonderful.

[Telecolor 3007]

But the image was good because the tape was larger than the today's tape?

[dr*audio]

When I lived in L.A. the local PBS station played this show (in black and white) and I taped it. I think I still have this tape. If it still plays I'll copy it onto DVD. I'll post later this week if I have it.

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

But the image was good because the tape was larger than the today's tape?

The image was good because any size tape produces a better image than cheap 16 mm film shot from the faceplate of a small CRT.

[Steve D.]

Seems to me that folks on the West coast who spent hundreds of 1957 dollars on a color set had cause for complaint. I guess the sponsors wanted the largest audience possible and a delayed prime time B&W telecast to the Pacific time zone was worth disappointing the few viewers with color sets. I've seen the B&W Cinderella kine. It looks terrible now and I'm sure just as bad in 1957. The live color telecast must have been spectacular.

-Steve D.

[Dave A]

If you want to spend a few bucks, the DVD of the B&W 1957 kine is available at Amazon;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=UTF8&v=glance

And if you want a color copy of the 1965 color remake (unknown if it is a kine or a tape copy) of the same with Lesley Ann Warren as Cinderella, Amazon has it also;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...v=glance&n=130

Check the second listing and find the sale price for both.

Good night and good luck,

Dave A

This was recently (6 months ago maybe?) rebroadcast in BW by the PBS station in San Francisco. I made a point to watch it on my Admiral bakelite 10" set. It was supposedly the first time it had been broadcast since 1957, or so they claimed. It got an advance write-up in the local paper's TV section with some background on the production. It didn't say anything about the original being in color if I recall correctly, and judging from the make-up it looked like they used that early TV black lipstick stuff to me, which would rule out color. Don't know what prompted them to run it. Perhaps if interested parties contacted KQED they could find out from someone there how they got their copy and what's available out there.