50th Anniversary!
It's pretty incredible that this aired fifty years ago today. Amazing for its time (or any time, really!) And lucky for us that it's available to watch today!
shareYes really the best original television musical ever written, and you get the best performance of it from Julie Andrews, who Rodgers & Hammerstein, the greatest Broadway songwriting partnership, wrote it especially for, perhaps now is the time to put the colour back into it as well, must be technically possible in the 21st century!!
shareI agree. Musicals are so full of life to begin with, and color would add so much more to the sense of fantasy and wonder that you get watching Cinderella.
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putting colour in would make it artificail.
since it was broadcast ina filmed in black and white.
I hate colourized b&w films.
you lose something of the original look and feel of a production.
especialy shadow and light.
and any reflections int things like mirrors alway have a strange halo around the face.
and the worst part the skins tones are all the same no realty to them
skin and hair have shadings you can't creat in colourized films.
so the tend to look flat.
It was actually filmed/shown in both color and b/w, yet only the b/w kinescope remains. I do prefer the b/w although, it takes you back to different time imo.
shareIt was broadcast with a recording made for the West Coast via kinoscope- bolting a movie camera face to face with a TV monitor. Thus the kinoscope is the only record of it. The question is: was it broadcast in color, such that people in the East who had color sets, (a rarity then), could have seen it in color? If not, there's no color to "restore". I agree with the above poster that if it was broadcast in black and white, it was meant to be taht way and should be left that way, not "improved" by some modern techincian who wasn't even born yet when it was first shown.
shareIt was indeed broadcast on the East Coast in color; the kinetescope was the best vehicle for broadcasting it three hours later on the West Coast, and was in black-and-white. In fact, if I recall correctly, the kinetiscope shown was not the one we have today; this is a recording of a dress rehearsal a day or two before.
shareDo enough costume design sketches exist to provide the color scheme? Do they usually keep those after a TV performance?
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Thas what I have always heard-the kinescope was supposedly a dress rehearsal. But the one used for the 2004 tv and dvd release IS the original show-''live''.In interview with Jon Cypher, included on the dvd, he states that he accidentally sang over Dorothy Stickney,who played The Queen. And, indeed, the scene is there just as he described it. It still haunts him, to this day.
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