Posted on 11/22/2020 3:26:51 PM PST by OttawaFreeper
This is a compilation of rare colour television show excerpts dating from 1958 to 1966 shot on the first colour camera the RCA TK-41. These excerpts come from various programs like Bell Telephone Hour, Fred Astaire specials from 1958-60, Peter Pan, and various NBC drama play specials shot in living colour. From a 1976 NBC anniversary special
Could we class Amos and Andy as “Colored” or just Black and White?
Did you have Saturday morning cartoons? How about captain kangaroo? Skipper Chuck? Gilligan’s island?
One of the rites of passage in that era for father and son. Went through the same experience. That cigar box wouldn't have been a red and white John Ruskin box by chance? Seemed like every kid had one as a pencil box in our area.
“You had a shag carpet?????”
In the ‘70s, of course. Harvest gold or avocado, I think, to match the flowers on the Corelle dishes.
“Dad up on the roof jiggling the antenna and re-pointing it.”
We had a rotor!
We had a rotor!
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And if you live out in the country you had to have a 25’ or
so antenna to reach the stations. We could get three, ABC,
NBC, CBS. Two were in the same direction but if you wanted
to watch the other you have to reset the antenna direction.
“And if you live out in the country”
Or a small city. The first stations were all about 100 miles away.
I used to sit and watch the ‘snow’!
PBS also showed Benny Hill.
No way they would do that today.
I can remember Monty Python being on the local PBS station (Watertown, NY) late at night well into the 1980s (years after they stopped making the original episodes) and my father remarked with a little humour that that was probably because all sorts of people in the Ottawa area gave them donations conditional upon them airing that program.
I recall a few years ago discussing on another forum online about our local PBS station bringing back “Till Death Us Do Part” (the British inspiration for All In The Family). And I got a similar response in that there would be no way most TV stations (either nostalgia specialty or PBS) would ever touch a show like that because of too many sensitive persons around nowadays who would not like the greatly politically incorrect content of that show, lol.
“Did you have Saturday morning cartoons? How about captain kangaroo? Skipper Chuck? Gilligan’s island?”
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Of course - it’s part of being a kid. Or, it was part of being a kid!
“Skipper Chuck” sounds like it was probably a show that was local to you. We had a bunch of local hosts in my area.
Sunday mornings it was old movies on TV - Bowery Boys, Charlie Chan, Ma & Pa Kettle, Henry Aldrich, Blondie, etc.
Late night Saturdays were for the horror show movies.
I forgot about Benny Hill.
He was a great comic.
I used to get together with a good friend of mine to drink beer and watch Benny Hill.
Yes, bluray disc players do their own up-scaling (resolution enhancement) and they're pretty cheap now. However, you can't buy a 4k (4000 vs. 1080 original Hi-Def) for $15. However,they are getting cheaper by the year.
I'm sure many manufactures have great 4k sets. I just can't imagine any others have a better picture than our 55" and 65" LG displays. Like I said above, it's like looking through a window.
That said, I've read 8k is now the next thing. I don't believe you will be able to see the difference on a 55" 4k TV. If they can make projectors in 8k resolution for our 110" screen in the theater to replace our older Pioneer projector (480 widescreen), I'd be interested. I now have a 65" 4k sitting in front of that screen. Do you know if there are 4k projectors as of now? I haven't kept up. If so, I may consider it and go back to our 110" screen in the theater. Yes, we have the distance for such a large screen in case you're wondering.
Plus the theater audio surround is incredible. Besides the 200 watt receiver, we have Def-Tech towers with powered adjustable subs (on side of tower) in front and Mirage towers in back for surround. All 4 have matching mid/tweeter speakers in front and back, except for the center Def-Tech.
With the right adjustments, the speakers bouncing off the walls is like being there live. The depth, width, and rear sound reaching a millisecond later than the front speakers is like being in a concert hall, or club, or any venue you desire according to your surround settings. They also work wonders for movies. I will never go to just front facing speakers again. Check out Definite Technology speakers.
I remember Dr.Jeckel and Mr. Hyde starring Jack Palance. He slit a guys nose with his sword and blood went pouring down his face. Also remember watching Frankinstein with Lon Chaney as drunk as a skunk on live tv. Picked up a chair and thinking it was a dress rehearsal slowing taps the chair on the table to break it. Remember Jacky Gleason breaking his arm on live tv when a wall fell on him....and Ed Sullivan too many incidents to even report.
I remember Jack Palance as Dr. Jekyll. That was around 1968-69. Made for TV movie. Not bad.
I sincerely doubt that I'll go for 8K....watching the BBC's "Planet Earth II" in 4K is already a metaphysical experience for me.And I just bought Lawrence of Arabia in 4K but haven't watched it.Possibly this weekend.
If you're curious and have some free time you can see my 4K collection at "bluray.com" under screen name "listerone".
I have the Jack Palance version (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) as part of the Dan Curtis Macabre collection on DVD (also includes the 1973 Jack Palance film of Dracula, the 1974 version of The Turn of the Screw with Lynn Redgrave, and the 1973 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray with Shane Briant).
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