NBC colour series: Shirley Temple Show 1960-61
 

G'day all. I guess many of you might already be aware of this but thought I'd mention it anyways.

I have stumbled upon another excellent early NBC living colour television series called "The Shirley Temple Show" which ran from 1960 to 1961 and there's a DVD release of the series:
http://store.nexternal.com/shared/St...unt2=103965401
A trailer of this release can be seen here on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3s6_A09rUk
along with a bunch of other clips from the series users have uploaded.

I have to say that sea creature from the Little Mermaid episode played by Ray Walston looks a bit like a band member of KISS with the black and white makeup and that black costume hehehe.

I am absolutely in WOW of the rich colour pictures from this show, it is so GOOD!!!!! :D The technicians must of been highly paid to really tweak those TK-41s to the utmost optimum quality!!! I am most certainly gonna be ordering myself a copy of the series!!! :D

Wow thanks for posting I'll definitely be ordering a copy. So, can someone please explain to me again how digital is so much better than analog?? I mean to say that we have been brainwashed into believing that we need to settle for over corrected monotone color scenes. I hope50 years from now someone will see recordings from today and say wow. But I am not holding my berath on that one.... I love analog tube gear.

I somehow remember this series as being produced on color film and not color videotape. I certainly could be wrong. If on color video I would order the box set. Color film doesn't interest me. Aussie Bloke could you or any other VK member verify the medium used?

-Steve D.

From the clips I saw on You Tube, definitely early color videotape. It looks great! I wonder if they included the NBC Peacock at the beginning of each episode? Seeing these early NBC color shows without the Peacock isn't the same.

Gilbert

Definitely colour videotape. As you'll see in this YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXoHru5Hedo where Shirley ends the show she is chromakeyed on the background of the NBC studio and two RCA TK-41s can be seen up the far back, plus the halos around her dress sequins when reflecting the spotlights is a dead giveaway, and also there's that dark vertical band on the left side of the picture seen in the animal head trophy bit which is a typical characteristic of a TK-41 picture.

Steve, I'm going to line up with you; when I first viewed the clip in question I thought film and not video. No reason really, just a gut reaction.

Pete

Ah, just saw AUSSIE BLOKE's post. Steve, we must be getting old...?

Folks it's video. Even some nice quad video tape issues on top of tk-41 setup problems. I wonder how old the masters were before they were transfered to a modern format.

Yes, the peacock was used before each of the shows of Shirley Temple's Storybook, remember the show well.

thanks for posting - the color really is gorgeous - just ordered a copy.

Thanks for pointing this out - I had never heard of the show before.

It looks ideal for my wife & stepdaughter - miles better than the flip little brats shown on the Disney Channel. I'm ordering a copy next week.

Isn't that Agnes Moorehead as the Wicked Witch?

The color is nice but definitely Videotape.

Perhaps it could serve as one of our NTSC/CT-100/15GP22 showpieces. Might there be a way to determine how close the DVD is to what was actually broadcast in 1960-61? I'm wondering specifically about the composite output of a 'quality' DVD player versus... well, what?, the color RF signal that would have been broadcast back then, or maybe the colorplexer output? Can anyone say pipedream...:scratch2:

Pete

Speaking of early color, someone has posted clips from two 1959 "Kraft Music Hall" episodes with Milton Berle on YouTube:

January 21st, 1959:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF-BwHjJyKU

March 18, 1959:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEYl...eature=related

Great stuff!

Jeff Martin
Chicago, IL

This stuff looks amazing-haven't been this excited since I saw Mary Martin's 1960 "Peter Pan" shown with great ceremony on NBC in 1989. I was 27 then, so of course never saw it when new. I was stunned at the quality of that 1960 color videotape. And I commiteed the program to a high grade TDK VHS tape that night. Never got around to buying the Laserdisc, which I regret now. I'd read about the Shirley Temple Storybook show, but never saw anything of it until tonight. Great story choices, the production design resembles the original books in the ones that I recognized-especially "Madelleine". The credits omitted Cathleen Nesbitt, whom I instantly recognized. Was that Bea Lillie in the "Pippi Longstocking" clip? What a great-looking series! Definitely on the want list now.

I think it's Renie Riano.