https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5g8LeqmM0Y

18:30 shows a 1969 GE color best tube color GE ever!!!

First clue NOT 1963 was the ad for The Mod Squad on ABC, then I saw the 69 GE. Anyone else I know would have picked up on other things like how everyone looked then.

Why was it in BW this late, filmed BW & broadcast in color? It was color on an NBC episode actually from 1963.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNXm_5kLmo

Please tell us what you think?

The first video (1969) is a kinescope recording.

A black & white print would be for the sponsor...

Maybe cheap copy for another country like Canada ?
They had translators to cover small, remote towns.
Even logged one in Mass from NS during S-E skip back in the 80's.
Was a US game show, IIRC "match game " or "lets make a deal"
But if it was B&W I would remember that......

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Black and white of color were used for back up in case a station lost the network feed , the cost of making something color that wouldn't be seen is why it's black and white , these also were sent to armed forces radio and tv and other areas that had no color broadcasting , even shows that were color and on film like batman , Jeannie , bewitched , bonanza etc had black and white prints made as a back up , these prints would never be seen or in rare cases aired on a Sunday or Saturday afternoon because the affiliate was showing something else like sports or political or whatever would have replaced what was shown on the network

Years ago I saw a rerun of Let's Make A Deal on Gameshow and didn't think nothing of it... until I saw the new 1973 Buick up for grabs. Clearly the video was from quad and good enough to pass as modern (pre astc). They also had a Panasonic swivel base hybrid set on the block.

Best tube color GE is like saying your best traffic ticket ever. You still wouldn’t want it.

That…thing though, she should gave kept the third can.

BTW, the so-called “Monty Hall problem” is a big mathematical debate, still…

Personally I never cared for the Portacolor or their later VIR sets.

Would a black and white backup be quad, tho? Which brings up the question - if the videotape (television tape!) machine could do color, why not record in color? I’d imagine a color affiliate would have all color machines? Or were there still some backwaters that could only do color from the network feed in the late 60s?

Would a black and white backup be quad, tho? Which brings up the question - if the videotape (television tape!) machine could do color, why not record in color? I’d imagine a color affiliate would have all color machines? Or were there still some backwaters that could only do color from the network feed in the late 60s?

A backup TAPE would be color, but this was a kinescope (film) recording on monochrome film. Color kinescope was much rarer, both in availability of equipment and usage of that equipment.

Color kinescope via lenticular film was a process used in volume by NBC to do time delay for the west coast, for a period of only a year and a half in the 1950s, before switching to color tape. It required special projector optics in the color film chain to recover the color, as well as the special recorder; therefore the film was not suitable for distribution to local stations.

There was some color kinescope recording done on color film, but that was relatively rare and I believe used more for special projects rather than for regular wide distribution. It required a special recorder, but the film was usable on any ordinary color film chain. I believe it may have also been used in a few cases to transfer video to film for a theatrical film production.

I would think the color film out from a kine would be horrid at best given the coarse triad grouping of the earlier CRT's. Guess I don't recall how bad things were back then...

I would think the color film out from a kine would be horrid at best given the coarse triad grouping of the earlier CRT's. Guess I don't recall how bad things were back then...

The source could be a triniscope (three primary color CRTs with color-combining dichroic mirrors) so no phosphor dots would be involved.

Makes sense. The only film chains I ever got involved with were old RCA's from the 60's that came from the local ABC affiliate feeding then modern JVC KY-1900's around 1985 doing film to tape at the schools. Everything was captured to 3/4 (top load Sony 2600) for dup to VHS.