Early Bell Telephone Hour Color Video

[old_tv_nut]

To me, color, registration, etc. seemed less consistently good on the NY cameras. Burbank usually went for the California tan look and achieved it more regularly, but Dean Martin was an exception, sometimes looking very ruddy; although his skin tones were dark, they were often quite reddish. On the DVD collection of his shows, the tint seems to vary from show to show (and sometimes from scene to scene), so I wonder if this was a burst phase problem that was not visible at the first monitoring point and crept in later. This would be an argument for using PAL instead of NTSC.

This reminds me of a Chicago daytime variety program in which the female vocalist looked almost clownish with heavy rouge on her cheeks. One time I went down to the viewing gallery, and imagine my surprise when that's how she looked in person. The NBC rep that was present said they had tried to tell her, but she insisted on doing her own makeup. WNBQ also had a political commentator, Len O'Connor, who had a very ruddy complexion, and they put him in front of a green background! It looked like he refused makeup entirely. The color contrast was unbelievable, but I believe that's the way he really looked.

[vallieone]

Thanks old tv nut.

I recall an old tv technician telling me that because of the hectic taping schedule for shows that were being televised from the Rockefeller Center studios particularly the game shows like Jeopardy, that the cameras weren't being properly set up. As more of the shows came on board to color, this became more of an issue.

[NewVista]

Fantastic flesh tones, they should have made a solid state Image O.
camera in the 1960s. Maybe the Fernseh IO color was solid state?