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Cinderella 1957 on CBS
Here is a color transparentcy of the 1957 broadcast of Cinderella. You can see the TK 40 in the foreground.
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You can also see from the ball room dance scene how tight the studio space was for this 1957 color special. Many standing sets, a large cast and, of course, crew & equipment had to share CBS' studio 72 in New York where the live colorcast originated. The West coast received a delayed black & white kinescope.
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You didn't happen to see it in color did you/
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Hey Larry,
I live on the West coast and If I saw it at all it would have been a B&W kine. Also CBS didn't have color video tape in 1957. The network had only recently demonstrated B&W videotape from a machine loaned to them by Ampex. I do recall viewing the 1965 CBS presentation of Cinderella in color. We had a color set at that time. Here is the Youtube beginning of the '57 kinescope as seen on the West Coast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfYQoNt3AY. You'll also see the rest of the show in parts on Youtube.
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I've wondered why Cinderella's sisters not wanting her to have a chance at the prince, as only one of the two sisters could marry him, and the other sister would become his sister-in-law. But she'd be his sister-in-law if he married Cinderella. As well as the other sister. Not that I spent much time on this puzzle...
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Too bad the kinescope's focus was so soft, otherwise it might have been a good candidate for the color recovery software they're using in the UK.
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Since all three colors (encoded) are transmitted at the same time, there is no way to do NTSC, except to actually film it in color. This was a Hot Kine, meaning that the head of each one hour camera reel had to be telecast three hours after the tail cleared the camera! That speed wasn't possible with any color processes in use at the time. (Color negative was very temperamental, plus it could not yield a good sound track, so the track would have to be exposed on a separate roll of B&W negative stock and the two rolls of film synced up and then printed. That took a longer time than they had. Color reversal stocks of the era were too slow, except for Anscochrome , and that stock could not yield a good track. Nobody was magnetically striping 16mm with a coating that was good enough to survive the chemical processing. ) James |
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For a timezone like the west coast I could see that kind of collaboration being feasible.
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Actually, the 1957 Cinderella was replayed to the West Coast from black-and-white 2" tape; it was written up in one of the trade journals (Broadcasting-Telecasting?) as CBS's first use of tape for a 90-minute program. Unfortunately, that 2" appears to have been lost.
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Aha, I found the source; it was in "Television Digest," 4/6/57:
"As networks continue to increase use of Ampex recorders, another landmark was quietly reached this week--the delayed broadcast of a 90-minute spectacular by videotape. CBS-TV transmitted its March 30 production of Cinderella to west coast on tape--in monochrome version, of course--receiving critical acclaim for technical quality. The New York Times reported from Hollywood: 'The telecast of 'Cinderella' was one of the best seen since the machines went into operation last November. The technical flaw of 'drop-out'--a white flash across the screen caused by microscopic imperfections in the tape--was at a minimum. The image of the colorcast, seen here in black & white, was far superior to filmed kinescope. Details were sharply defined and gradations of black & white were excellent.'" Which makes the poor quality of the existing kine all the sadder. |
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