1957 CBS Cinderella kinescope: possibility of colour recovery!

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Originally Posted by jmdocs

Lenticular Kodacolor can definitely be restored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWldGxHKqw

Question is whether lenticular kinescopes also used the same vertical line structure for the lenticles. NBC definitely used it for a few years; somewhere around here I have the SMPTE Journal article about it. Also a couple of TV columns where they criticize how grubby the lenticular kines looked in the West Coast feed. Of course a modern restoration could get a lot more information out of the film than a 1956 film chain. Supposedly there are some lenticular kinescopes in the Jerry Lewis collection at the Library of Congress but I'm not sure (and that collection is going to take years to process...)

Jeff M.
Chicago, IL

Thanks for posting that. I have seen some lenticular footage of an Eastman / Edison lawn party, but this is the first time I have seen this film.

If they restored the color optically, it appears to me they had a lens with slightly wrong focal length, resulting in the hue shift across the image.