I think that looks a lot better.
TOS in glorious . . . black and white
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Born in the early 70's, I too had the B&W and colour TV Trek experience. Of course the transmissions weren't as clear either, and that was a huge factor when taking into account how poorly some of the sets transfered over to HD.
Now you can see every little flaw, and that's a bit of a shame.
That said, I wouldn't want to watch it in B&W. I see the world in colour and that's how I want to watch TV. With the exception of shows filmed in B&W before colour became widely used. I don't like movies and shows where colour has been added, primarily because it detracts from the artist and technical aspects of filming in B&W.
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Now you can see every little flaw, and that's a bit of a shame.
That said, I wouldn't want to watch it in B&W. I see the world in colour and that's how I want to watch TV. With the exception of shows filmed in B&W before colour became widely used. I don't like movies and shows where colour has been added, primarily because it detracts from the artist and technical aspects of filming in B&W.
Good topic!
Wow, you guys are really touching a "nostalgic" nerve....I remember my family having a black annd white set during the 60's... In the 70's my dad picked up a 24" stereo/color combo (frame and covering real wood)....That sucker was heavy!....Strange, even with a color TV, we kids did not hang around to watch...we were usually outside riding our bikes, rough housing, playing tackle football, baseball, occasionally listening to our favorite music.....Star Trek was the rare occasion to sit for a while and enjoy the future.
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Yep, them were the days...
Today: "What! You want me to go outside? But there's nothin' to do outside!"
For anyone feeling nostalgic about STAR TREK in black & white, here are a few DVD screen captures with the color saturation removed:
Harry
Thanks HGN2001/Harry. I do recognize that last picture from the episode "The Naked Time", it is just before they break away from the Psi 2000 planet and go back in time 3 days because they used the warp drive while the engines were still cold. Kirk's torn tunic on his right shoulder, where McCoy injected him as he entered the bridge, gave it away for me. I watched Star Trek in black and white too, until the early 1980s.
Navigator NCC-2120 USS Entente
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Got lucky when I tracked down that ViewMaster set on eBay. Pictures aren't the least bit faded or discolored. 
I think the first time I saw Star Trek in color was on Viewmaster as well. I believe the episode was "Omega Glory." I think the first time I ever saw "Lost in Space" and "Batman" in color was also by Viewmaster.
They did Lost in Space in Viewmaster? I remember the Star Trek and Batman ones, but not Lost in Space.
Still have one reel from the Batman set...
Yes they did a LIS Viewmaster (I think it was based on the 3rd season premiere Condemned of Space). They also did one for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which I have (along with Trek and TAS). I loved those. Good times.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-LOST-S...24201?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item1c207ca629
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-LOST-S...24201?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item1c207ca629
IIRC the greenishness of the command tunics shows up a bit better in the viewmasters than on film.
Must have been shot on set using special stereo camera, right? Plus some of it is outdoors, not under studio lights. Correct me if I'm wrong. (What am I saying? Of course you will, this hpis TrekBBS.)
Must have been shot on set using special stereo camera, right? Plus some of it is outdoors, not under studio lights. Correct me if I'm wrong. (What am I saying? Of course you will, this hpis TrekBBS.)
You are correct. That's the episode.
I had that one, too.
I have both the adaptation of The Omega Glory and Mr. Spock's Time Trek on View-Master. 
According http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/View-Master, there's more!
According http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/View-Master, there's more!
I remember B&W television (we didn't get a color set until 1973--my dad thought color TV was a waste of money), but I don't think I ever saw Star Trek in monochrome.
My dad was pretty intelligent, but he thought the radiation from color tv was detrimental, so it wasn't until 1980 that my mom bought two color tvs.
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Funny/cynical GR anecdote there: in the 60s the View-Master stereo camera guy had to come to the set - and whichever episode was being filmed that week was the one that became immortalized in 3D. (By ST:TMP, View-Master was manipulating regular 2D publicity images to appear 3D, and set visits were no longer required.)
GR supposedly delayed View-Master's visit, so that "coincidentally" it was one his his own scripts being filmed. That meant that GR received an extra royalty payment for his script's adaptation in the little booklet accompanying the View-Master reels pack.
Try Googling. There are definitely sites out there dedicated to experimenting with scans of rare View-Master reels, and others playing with stereo pictures for online viewing.
My grandmother claimed that our new colour TV caused her terrible headaches whenever she visited. That lasted until my grandfather finally bought her a colour set: headaches cured!
Yep, and the Enterprise in orbit had to be staged with a commercial AMT model kit in cameo to get a stereo effect of SPFX that hadn't been created by the time of live-action shooting.
