Who can explain this--
I watched several WHAT'S MY LINES?s from 1955-6 from uploader Happyswordsman on Archive dot org this morning and altho several had a vertical black stripe (5% of the left to right area?) on the extreme right one had a stripe of live image there.
The balance of the image was the washed out grey look I associate with many of these 1950s "live" TV shows. They are either washed out low contrast or high contrast with hot spots & cold spots.
But in this case the thin vertical strip had a beautiful looking image of what the camera was seeing--the pic shows John Daly's ear looking great and the rest of him with about a 5% grey tone over him. The effect was the same on every second of the show, titles & commercials & every different studio camera.
It is maddening to think some inter-stage version of the show would look as good as that edge but I have to watch the grey version. (The black margin all around is where I cropped my screen grab.)
Who here knows the deal?
I watched several WHAT'S MY LINES?s from 1955-6 from uploader Happyswordsman on Archive dot org this morning and altho several had a vertical black stripe (5% of the left to right area?) on the extreme right one had a stripe of live image there.
The balance of the image was the washed out grey look I associate with many of these 1950s "live" TV shows. They are either washed out low contrast or high contrast with hot spots & cold spots.
But in this case the thin vertical strip had a beautiful looking image of what the camera was seeing--the pic shows John Daly's ear looking great and the rest of him with about a 5% grey tone over him. The effect was the same on every second of the show, titles & commercials & every different studio camera.
It is maddening to think some inter-stage version of the show would look as good as that edge but I have to watch the grey version. (The black margin all around is where I cropped my screen grab.)
Who here knows the deal?
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