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Title: WML? CBS question
Post by: SuperMatch93 on August 18, 2013, 03:36:14 AM

This may sound like a very trivial question to some, but speaking as a person who has only seen the show in black and white:


What color(s) were the walls on the final CBS set of What\'s My Line?


EDIT: Can someone move this?

Title: WML? CBS question
Post by: The Pyramids on August 18, 2013, 01:14:47 PM

I\'ve heard, probably here, that they were blue.

Title: WML? CBS question
Post by: SuperMatch93 on August 18, 2013, 03:24:29 PM

Ah, makes sense, I guess. I always assumed it was light tan, because it was designed before the show went to color.

Title: WML? CBS question
Post by: clemon79 on August 18, 2013, 08:41:23 PM

Ah, makes sense, I guess. I always assumed it was light tan, because it was designed before the show went to color.

 

Blue was common because blue filmed very well for black and white broadcasting.

Title: WML? CBS question
Post by: Steve Gavazzi on August 18, 2013, 08:51:58 PM

Blue was common because blue filmed very well for black and white broadcasting.

Is similar logic the reason behind everything in Mayberry being green?

Title: WML? CBS question
Post by: SuperMatch93 on August 18, 2013, 10:55:59 PM

Speaking of blue and green working well, were chroma-key shots common (in the style of, say, Green Screen Adventures on WCIU) in this era?


/I\'ve never seen Captain Kangaroo....

Title: WML? CBS question
Post by: trainman on August 19, 2013, 01:16:34 AM

Speaking of blue and green working well, were chroma-key shots common (in the style of, say, Green Screen Adventures on WCIU) in this era?

This 1964 local weather broadcast may answer that question for you.

(Spoiler alert: it has puppets, but no chroma-key.)