CBS color film about show of shows studio rehearsal.

[oldtvman]

The thing that strikes me is the fact that CBS had all that color gear and a working studio and then just shut it down. I know the war between Paley and Gen. Sarnoff was big, but sometimes you end up shooting yourself in the foot.

[old_tv_nut]

On the page, someone (Pat Bryant) replied to a post of mine:
"I think this was made from a faded negative, which would explain the near-absence of blues and the predominance of greens. Nice transfer under the circumstances."

This makes some sense, since fading of a negative might not affect the darker scene colors (lighter parts of the negative) as much as the brighter ones, making the blacks and grays more recoverable than the saturated colors.

[etype2]

Upon seeing this film, my first thought was how similar this film’s color looks to the Time-Life collection of CBS monitor screenshots from the television show “Premiere”. Faded, aged. The coloring process is arduous ... for a promo film where they wanted to show off their color production facilities?

[Tom9589]

Does anyone know how long CBS used these facilities until they threw in the towel on color broadcasting and didn't came back until the mid 1960s?

I was in Atlanta at the time and there was no color transmission here at the time, only B&W.

[etype2]

Originally Posted by Tom9589

Does anyone know how long CBS used these facilities until they threw in the towel on color broadcasting and didn't came back until the mid 1960s?

I was in Atlanta at the time and there was no color transmission here at the time, only B&W.

I found this on Ed Reitan’s site: “ It was not known by either Deppe or CBS's Richard O'Brien when Studio 72 was retired. Stephen Paley says he saw Studio 72 still in operation in 1964. The TK-40A color cameras had been converted to the CBS "Video Scene" process whereby they were used as black and white cameras for matte shots. Eventually, only the TK-26 Film Chains from Studio 72 were moved to the Broadcast Center on West 57th Street in late 1964. Thus, the only CBS East Coast color capability from late 1964 until the conversion of the Sullivan Theater in late 1965 was from film and video tape.”