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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Sun, 14 November 2021, 21:00:23
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Man they wore alot of eyeshadow back then.
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not only eye shadows, I see eye liner too, or whatever it is called:)
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not only eye shadows, I see eye liner too, or whatever it is called:)
+ mascara
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I think lipsticks are in place as well :D
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I think lipsticks are in place as well :D
woah, ur right, didn't even notice..
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OMG !
TV actors wear makeup! Who knew?
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OMG !
TV actors wear makeup! Who knew?
:p
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Really more a matter of a bad makeup person on the show. If you can notice the men's eye shadow you done did a bad job.
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You probably wouldn't have noticed at the time, as it was hardly broadcast in HD.
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You probably wouldn't have noticed at the time
When I first watched it in 1966, we had had a color TV for several years. But it came in to the antenna out of the air, cable TV was over a decade in the future.
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You probably wouldn't have noticed at the time, as it was hardly broadcast in HD.
I don't think many people had color tvs until a bit later.
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In the early-1960s there were almost no TV shows in color, by the mid-late-1960s almost everything was in color.
In 1960 very few people had color TVs, by 1970 most at-least-semi-affluent families in the US had one.
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In the early-1960s there were almost no TV shows in color, by the mid-late-1960s almost everything was in color.
In 1960 very few people had color TVs, by 1970 most at-least-semi-affluent families in the US had one.
I grew up in the 80s and we didn't have a color tv until the 90s
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"Big screen" TV's in the 60's were probably less than 18 inches with a resolution of 480x320 and the color duplication (if you had color) sucked, it was also projected by CRT, not an lcd which alters how we see color. Old movies and shows don't look the same without color correction.
Much of the color you see was not how it looked in person at all much less how you see it on a modern screen, especially if someone re-edited the color. It was tweaked to make it look how they wanted on modern tech of the time (as close as possible, which was terrible) or current if remastered.
They also didn't have pause or zoom, most shows were aired without the expectation of ever being shown again, same for movies, this is a large reason why so much of early tv and film is lost, no one thought to keep it (including Star Wars which Lucas chopped up to make the Christmas special *shudder*), with that expectation sets and props were often done quick and cheap. On a lot of old sci-fi, at least original film recordings that were not later edited or re-mastered you can pause and see plywood on the sets. No one expected you to pause and rewind and tear it apart to see how it was constructed.
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They also made the NTSC colorspace too large, and never even fulfilled it.
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(including Star Wars which Lucas chopped up to make the Christmas special *shudder*)
Lucas chopped it up to make the Special Edition of the movies, released in theatres in '97.
He had only little involvement in the "Star Wars Holiday Special"; which aired in mid-November '78.
But yeah. Lots of sets and props were not made for close scrutiny. One of my other hobbies is building replicas of movie props and costumes (cosplay), and of Star Wars props and costumes in particular.
For instance, Han Solo has a slightly different pistol in close-up (when he is about to shoot Greedo) than otherwise in the movie. Some shots were mirrored, so that it wouldn't seem that they reused the same sets — with the effect that props and costumes got mirrored in these shots, but the audience was not supposed to notice.
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TV's in the 60's were probably less than 18 inches
In the early days, the rule of thumb was supposed to be that you sat one foot away from the TV for every one inch of screen size. (But of course we sat as close as we could.)
When you got a TV that was bigger than about 18" it was probably in a large piece of wooden furniture that sat on the floor.
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Were rooms so big you could sit 18 feet away from the tv?
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Of course not. I suspect that it was at least partially a sales concept to demonstrate how satisfying even a small TV could be, since that was all that was available and/or affordable. Speaking of which, think how many people today actually watch TV and even movies on their phones.
And, there was the warning that the radiation would burn out your eyes.
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And, there was the warning that the radiation would burn out your eyes.
The radiation was real. CRTs generate a small quantity of xray. Over a long time, it can generate eye cancer/ brain cancer.
Lots of TV camera crews which had crt viewfinders got it. Certainly lots of computer geeks as well, but it's hard to prove since it happens into old age.