Were there any black and white Episodes? Will they be no the DvD if there are?
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Thanks! I asked my mom about it! She said the same thing! I am only 16 but I huge fan! I take it you have bought it? What other features are there?
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The Jetsons was actually ABC-TV's first colour tv series. That was in the fall of 1962. The Flintstones began televising in colour at the same time. So no there were no black and white episodes.
shareIf they started shooting in Color in 1962. Then why were lots of TV Shows still being filmed in Black and White until like 1966? Are you sure about this?
shareUmm, if they started shooting in HD in 1996, then why were lots of shows being filmed in Standard Definition in 2006? Are you sure about this?
shareIt's true that TV didn't become a total color medium until Sept 1966, but NBC had been pushing color programming since 1953. And ABC was broadcasting very limited color programming from Sept 1962. Since The Jetsons was a cartoon, it only made sense to broadcast it in color.
shareALL of the Hanna Barbera cartoons were originally made in color. This includes thier first series "Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks" which was made in 1958.
But just because they were MADE in color (and filmed in color) doesn't mean they were BROADCAST in color. Color televisions didn't come out until later, but H-B, knowing it was just a matter of time, made all of their cartoons in color in anticipation of color TV.
in some cases, however, we have only the black & white broadcast masters, such as the case of "The Flinstones" opening. Still, I have done a lot of research on this. Rest assured, they were all made in color from the begining.
And this is a bit off-topic, but Walt Disney also knew of the advent of color TV before it came out. All of the episodes of the anthology series, though originally airing in black and white in the 1950s, were filmed in color. When Walt moved his series to color TV on NBC in 1961, all the shows that originally aired in B&W reaired in color. And many of those episodes have aired colorized ever since.
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LOL. I know this is old but I have to comment on it. Colour Pictures have existed around the early 1900s. Colour Films started showing up afterwards. Most of the time Colour was available in Animation but at the time there were many still made in Black & White. It was not until the late 1930s cartoons started to be made in Colour. The Black & White Ones have since been colourized, but many have been banned because of racial stereotyping. (These cartoons were financed as Training Propaganda for World War II. Even Dr. Seuss worked on them.) It was common for cartoons to portray Germans and Japanese negatively. As for Blacks, they were usually portrayed positively (Mammy Two-Shoes by Lillian Randolph) but at the same time a splash of mud was a stereotypical Black-Face. This was also a time period when The Government owned Hollywood (United Productions Of America) and people were banned from Hollywood for political beliefs. Most of these cartoons are banned but the point is that they were colourized a few decades later.
It is much easier to film a Colour animation than Live Action. When they tried to film a Live Action in Colour, the colours were inaccurate.
Television was being developed during this same time. Look at The Long Lines telecommunications network was part of TV, Radio, Telephone, Teleprinter, Fax, etc. Television was Black & White.
Colour Television was not standard until Autumn of 1967. (same as Japan). In the 1950s, there were few television networks. One of them was NBC. The reason why NBC Peacock is Colour is not because he is a homosexual, but because NBC was "In Living Colour". NBC was playing around with Colour broadcasts and so some of their Prime Time TV was in Colour.
Star Trek is an obvious example. Every single episode is filmed in Colour, despite the first pilot being filmed in 1964.
But Colour was very expensive at the time. And most TV did not want to process it in Colour until it was deployed in 1967. If you are familiar with "The Munsters". It is in Black & White. They tried to film it in Colour but they decided it was extremely expensive. Only the pilot and subsequent films and a follow up TV series are in Colour.
CBS also played with Colour. Every Prime Time Series was Colour by the Autumn of 1965, if it was filmed in Hollywood. Betty White's husband's (he is dead now) game show Password was in Black In White and was filmed in NYC. They moved it to Hollywood in 1966 so it could be filmed in Colour. Daytime TV was not in Colour until 1967.
The short answer is Yes, every episode of The Jetsons is in Colour. They were from William Hanna and Joseph Barbera who worked for a very long time (24 years experience by the time they filmed The Jetsons!) so they are familiar with Colour. In fact, I do not know of ANYTHING that Hanna Barbera did that was in Black & White. They decided to spend the money and make every thing in Colour.
Sorry the answer is not very short. ABC decided to air The Jetsons in Colour, as a salute to The Future. Lol. But everybody's TV was Black & White. A Colour TV costed more than 50 iPhones.
The FlintStones, being in The Stone Ages, was filmed in Colour the entire time, but the first two seasons was aired in Black & White. Also for the first two seasons + 2 episodes, The Flintstones had a different Theme Music, resembling a TV adaptation of Looney Tunes. To avoid copyright infringement, they changed the theme music.
One of the adaptations of Gerald Mc Boing Boing was made around this time as well. It aired in Black & White despite being made in colour. The TV Guide article has him as Black & White cartoon.
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