Wow, the nice sharp B&W adds an Outer Limits or Twilight Zone air to the episodes, and makes COTEOF really look like an actual movie from the 1930's.
What if TOS Season 1 was filmed in Black and White?
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As I said upthread that looks very much like what it was like when I first started watching TOS although the original broadcast wasn't as sharp.
Seeing it now with good resolution I think it looks awesome in b&w. The monochrome look takes away what some might consider a dated colour palette and gives it a touch more atmosphere. The sets look just a bit less austere in some places.
I like it!
It does look good in b&w. And it had to, for business reasons. But I still love the "dated" color saturation that today's directors wouldn't be caught dead providing us with.
Along with The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone, I would add The Munsters and The Addams Family as two more shows that actually benefited from the darker atmospherics of b&w. And it goes without saying that classic horror like Frankenstein (1931) is way better in b&w.
I just had to try to reconstruct the experience ...
http://youtu.be/mA6sZt7xLFw
Reminds me of watching after-school tv, on a blustery November day...
http://youtu.be/mA6sZt7xLFw
Reminds me of watching after-school tv, on a blustery November day...
I just had to try to reconstruct the experience ...
http://youtu.be/mA6sZt7xLFw
Reminds me of watching after-school tv, on a blustery November day...
It gives me a powerful urge to adjust the antenna and finesse the fine-tuning dial like a safe cracker. I can fix this!
I just had to try to reconstruct the experience ...
http://youtu.be/mA6sZt7xLFw
Reminds me of watching after-school tv, on a blustery November day...
Cool, but overdone. Most days it wouldn't look like that, even in a small town over UHF.
For me, with the cheap little TVs we had, it often was that bad.
Except for maximum authenticity, there should be a black bar between the images as they flip.
Except for maximum authenticity, there should be a black bar between the images as they flip.
Missing from the simulation are the ghosts. Old analog transmissions were famous for ghost images, usually to the right of the main image, caused by reflections of the signal arriving just a little later.
When I had to watch STAR TREK in its second and third season at the old summer cabin, we used to tune it in on either Baltimore's WBAL-TV or Lancaster, PA's WGAL-TV. The hill behind us guaranteed a ghost image on WGAL-TV. (And with a lot of waviness in the picture, we nicknamed the channel, Wiggle-TV).
Harry
When I had to watch STAR TREK in its second and third season at the old summer cabin, we used to tune it in on either Baltimore's WBAL-TV or Lancaster, PA's WGAL-TV. The hill behind us guaranteed a ghost image on WGAL-TV. (And with a lot of waviness in the picture, we nicknamed the channel, Wiggle-TV).
Harry
True, it was not always that bad...but you guys should have lived at my house as a kid. I was on the broadcast fringe (beyond, really) of the lone station that showed Star Trek around there. Reception was was pretty horrendous, mostly.
^Back in the '90s, my local station dropped DS9 after a few seasons, so I had to watch it on a station from Dayton, 50 miles away. I didn't get to see the later seasons clearly until they were in reruns years later. I think I had the same problem with early VGR before we got a UPN affiliate, though I may be remembering wrong.
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