Posted on 12/31/2015 5:44:01 PM PST by keat
I'm watching the TZ marathon on SyFy. The current episode, "A Most Unusual Camera" is from 1960 and looks like it was shot on videotape. Did they do that back then? Looks like a cheesy soap opera.
My husband was watching some this afternoon in between football games.
I saw the one with Ellie May Clampett . . . Donna Douglas and the pig people at the mental hospital . . .
and then next one on with William Shatner!
I’m watching; been at it all day!!! I’ve seen several that I haven’t seen yet which is great.
it’s on hiatus right now due to WWE.
I like the one where the guy is in the library and doesn’t know the world has ended. He comes out to the ruins and breaks his glasses.
Like there are not thousands of reading glasses near him in the debris.
It's your reception...mine looks fine.
No, they didn't have tape back then. They used Kinescope, which was sort of a like tape, but more like film and so different from each. They would use and reused the Kine, so some things look fine, whilst other things look strange.
There are couple of TZs that look really strange, KICK THE CAN is one, but I don't remeber what the other one is.
That Shatner one is classic, almost as good as Billy Mummy.
I love those marathons. When Bubble Guppies is over maybe I’ll get to choose a channel.
Good looking gal.
And as video goes — very clear.
Betcha it has been digitally remastered and cleaned up.
Picture looks super sharp on my tv, just strange with none of the little dust, debris and scratches you'd expect on film.
Videotape existed, old timey low band 2 quad inch but it wasn’t exactly cheap and had a few drawbacks.
A quad set up right with a good tape plays very nicely.
I’m watching some classic Untouchables and they cleaned up nicely as well.
TZ was shot on film I believe.
How to Serve Man.
Actually, the networks started using videotape around 1957, but it was primarily for variety shows, game-shows, and daytime fare, as I’m sure you know. Unusual for tape to be used for a nighttime network show back then, though. The funny thing is that they also made kinescopes from tape too. When those ‘taped’ “Zone” episodes used to be shown in syndication over thirty-years ago, they were actually ‘film’ prints of the taped show.
Wasn’t Raoul Dahl’s show “Way Out” (which was in the TZ vein, from around 1961) shot on tape? There was another short summer series from the same era, “Great Ghost Stories,” but I think it was broadcast live. Maybe. Not 100% sure.
They did 6 episodes in videotape instead of film as a way to save money during the second season of Twilight Zone. It did look weird as hell.
Drunk Santa, lol.
On twice a year or so. Mrs p6 and I watch as much as we can!
Yeah the Donna Douglas one is a fav.
Mrs p6 never saw the Krushchev one.
She had no idea who he was!!!!
I robbed the cradle!
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