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EDIT: see post #12 (it is a mock-up)
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,036 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,965 posts)Made some gagworthy moments when Bill Frawley cut ripe ones trying to make everyone else break character.
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Took me years to figure out, "hey, they didn't go to Europe".
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Did they also not go to Cuba???
Did they not really have a long, long trailer?
Oh, no!
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)And to California?
Gotta watch those shows again!
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)A famous and hilarious episode had her making candies on an assembly line and stuffing the chocolates in her bakers hat, and I recall an overflowing washing machine. They were live, weren't they? Or was the laughtrack added?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)rsdsharp
(9,195 posts)It was filmed (on 35 mm film) before a live studio audience, and then the show was edited together in post production. Most of the laughs were live, but a laugh track was sometimes used to sweeten the response.
Lucy and Desi owned the films, because CBS wasn't concerned about reruns. Stupid CBS.
murielm99
(30,755 posts)Thanks.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,210 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....married couples in television shows were permitted to sleep in double beds.
Zambero
(8,965 posts)As that sitcom's cast and story line goes, that set-up might possibly explain why they only managed two kids back in the baby boomer era!?
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Emily and Bob also had one on "The Bob Newhart Show" too. I'm not sure who broke the shared bed barrier though.
hunter
(38,325 posts)-snip-
Likewise Herman and Lilly of The Munsters, who were actually shown in bed together a few weeks after the Bewitched episode mentioned in the page intro.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SleepingSingle
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)Zambero
(8,965 posts)Amazing photo. Comedic genius was captured there for all to see.
FakeNoose
(32,722 posts)This was the actual display at an Orlando old-time television museum.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)hunter
(38,325 posts)By the time color television came around they were thicker than your arm. Moving them when the scene changed (for live television generally on the commercial break) was a highly choreographed dance. There were many things that could go wrong.
People now have little appreciation for how difficult and expensive television was then compared to now when anyone can be a youtube star with a very minimal investment. The resolution of television then -- in glorious black and white -- was about one-third megapixels. My inexpensive cell phone does much better than that, in color, and in lower light.
I started college wanting to be a television engineer.
In the 'seventies engineering classes had very few, if any, women so I changed my major to biology.
There are few things sadder than a bunch of nerdy young guys trying to demonstrate their manliness by talking about babes, cars, and sports on their smoking breaks.
I didn't smoke, nor did I feel any need to prove my manliness. I was an uber-nerd but I also had a girlfriend. (It was a relationship from hell, but that's another story...)
My first college roommate was an engineering student. He didn't smoke or try to prove his manliness, but he did listen to Christian Rock whenever he was at home, and he very sincerely wanted me to attend his church and Bible study classes. I dodged that bullet after I was "asked" to take a time out from school for fighting with a teaching assistant.
My grandparents knew Lucile Ball when Hollywood was a much smaller place.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)That Ball was a terrible person in public in her daily life.
No idea if it was true, or because she was a powerful, wealthy woman, who had little tolerance of BS.
hunter
(38,325 posts)My grandfather was an Army Air Corp officer in World War II and later an engineer for the Apollo Project.
He likewise had little tolerance of BS, even though he could be full of BS himself outside his own areas of talent and expertise.
I have a photo of him with Lucille Ball around somewhere.
It's a curious thing really. Moon landings or television start out as "impossible" ideas, the stuff of dreams, and then the "No Bullshit" people make these dreams possible.
I just looked up Desilu Productions and had forgotten I Love Lucy was filmed, thus no hugely bulky cameras or cables, as was the case for television.
Desilu has also been credited as first to use a multiple-camera film setup before a live studio audience, but You Bet Your Life was being produced that way one year before I Love Lucy. On You Bet Your Life, the host, announcer, and contestants stayed in their places. Karl Freund's innovative lighting setup for I Love Lucy allowed performers to move freely about the stage set and to be recorded by each film camera with proper lighting.
Desilu began the creation of its productions using conventional film studio materials, production, and processing techniques. The use of these materials and techniques meant that the 35 mm negatives (the source material for copyright purposes) were immediately available for production and distribution of prints when the Lucy series went into syndication at local stations around the country. As such, no "lost" episodes of programs occurred, and no programs were recorded by kinescope from the television broadcast.
Through the use of orthodox Hollywood filming and production techniques, the content and quality of Desilu productions displayed a high standard (for 1950s-60s television productions) from the outset. Moreover, they were readily adaptable to both comedy and drama formats and were able to handle special effects or feature interior or exterior sets and locations with equal ease.
In January 1957, the NBC Television game show Truth or Consequences became the first program to be broadcast in all time zones from a prerecorded videotape.
I also found this:
Major film producers could take a lesson from this company which, like other makers of television films, was in the beginning faced with the problem of how to make films economically and at the same time successfully entertaining for the new medium. That Desilu is succeeding in this is evident in the fact that the company is operating at a profit, and that its product, the I Love Lucy television show, is rapidly climbing toward the No. 1 spot in the national polls; at this writing the show is No. 4 in the ratings.
http://www.lucyfan.com/filmingthe.html
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I think she was great.
Fla Dem
(23,732 posts)But I miss the Chocolate factory set.
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)I bought the entirely of the I Love Lucy series on DVD....Every single episode, and it was only about $100.00. Each episode also states the original air date. Quite a deal if you ask me.