What was the set used in the movie Apollo-13

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Originally Posted by David Roper

Jeff . . . Jeff . . .

Charles is referring to, for instance, Steve Douglas' set on My Three Sons, which was a ca. 1954 black & white console, magically displaying a color picture when its screen was shown. Similarly, Sam Drucker on Green Acres would occasionally pull a late 50s RCA portable out from behind the counter and it too would be shown displaying color pictures. Adobe got nuttin' to do with it.

You're correct about the ABC color logo, but in reverse order--think about it. There was only an instrumental backing at first. The announcement about a color program to follow was added later.

Correct; I meant about seeing a TV show or a movie with a B&W TV set as a prop, but with a color picture. I guess the prop houses had a lot of those sets sitting around, and they're light & portable. When I was a kid, living in the Rancho Park area of Los Angeles, they would rent houses frequently to do filming. So I would get to go snoop around and see what they were doing. I've seen two methods of putting pictures on TV sets for filming: One is that they do it by computer (TV is off while filming, picture is done later), the other way is to put a green sheet on the face of the CRT and use greenscreen technology to make the picture. The green paper method is very obvious in a commercial that ran all through the 90s in SoCal... It was for Adee Plumbing & Heating. They show a Sony KV-1720, which is ofcourse a color set, but they put the green sheet over the whole CRT bezel! You see the Sony in one part of the commercial not turned on and with the whole TV face showing, then you see it again with a picture on it but the picture covers the whole doggone plastic bezel! A 17" TV with a 21" picture ... As far as I know, they seldom if ever actually have a TV working while filming. I have rented plenty of vintage TVs to the film industry for props, and they nearly always want me to take the chassis & tube out and just give them the cabinet with knobs stuck on by silicone adhesive.

Charles