Some of you will be old enough to remember (at least in syndication?) seeing TV shows that add “IN COLOR” at the end of the title sequence. Typically, it’s stuff like ‘Bewitched’ or ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ or some police shows that started off in black and white, but they wanted the viewing public to know that, by golly, if you’re watching in black and white, you’re missing out on a hot new thing they were offering the public.
When I first made a new file folder for this website and labeled it ‘Hubris’, I didn’t want to confuse it with the older folders that had ‘Because It’s There’ and ‘Hubris’ packages for the syndicates. So in a merry spirit and recalling those old syndicated TV shows that made sure you knew you were getting the best technology could offer, I named the folder ‘Hubris In Color’ even though the cartoons were still uncolored when I named the file. I planned to color them before I put them on the web- assuring myself that it’d make people enjoy them so much more than if I just stuck the plain ol’ comic strips on there.
It’s still the same folder I use, even though the folder and files inside it would have burst an old analog file folder long ago.
I’ve been meaning to mention it for the past eight years. Hubris… IN COLOR!
Remember when the TV stations WENT OFF THE AIR (usually played the Star Spangled Banner and showed the flag, then went blip) and the test pattern in the morning with the indian chief in warbonnet in the middle, for about 30 min before programming started?
Too bad the gal fumbled the tag.
Greg, in a few years, you can upgrade to “In TECHNOcolor”.
Which means that you don’t use tablets and Photoshop anymore. Just markers by hand.
After that, make lots of zooming noises as you draw, and call it “Surroudsound.”
Dammit beat me to it!
I have my moments.
A Very Minor Point, Good Sir: “Technicolor”
Then there’s no joke…
[Curtis Hoffman]:
CURSES – FOILED AGAIN!!!?!
If my dh (dear hubby) wakes up from my laughing out loud, it’s your fault.
Love the sky-diver in the background.
I think it’s “Russell” and I think the horse (Silver?) shows great character!
Oh, trust me, I have “stories” about that horse! 😉 His name is Ronnie, but Silver works just fine. At least in the summer, during mud season might be a bit different… 😉
I Love this impromptu game of tag.
I remember 6 channels. UHF. VHF. Tethered clickers. 1 Adam 12. VHS. 8-Track. EP LP. Please Be Kind, Rewind.
You had so many more channels!. We had one NBC and one ABC/CBS (about 25% ABC and the rest CBS) stations. That played what was cheapest. I remember Mr. ED reruns. In the late 70’s they got PBS and we rejoiced OH WOW we got three channels to look at. 🙂
8 track, freshman in HS (mid 70’s) we were Christmas shopping in another small town (but they had STORES, circa 2500 population and county seat) and my dad asked me what I wanted for Christmas. The store had a small 8 track player and a ‘religious’ themed 8 track of the Statler Brothers. I touched the tape and said this. (cost, $8) He bought the player ($40) AND the tape. The clerks were using that player to play Christmas music (the 8 track) and weren’t happy as they had three weeks to the holiday to cover then. I got rid of that player, still working fine, around 2002 (donated it to a thrift store).
FFY – you old fogey. 😛
I was a “freshman” in 1994 … I’m a smidge younger than you.
In 1994 I was 10.
14.
In 94 I deployed to Korea. It was only a couple years from me retiring from the Air Force.
James, thank you for your service. I may be a Canuck, but, I have the utmost respect for the men and women who place their lives on the line to protect Democracy.
[FeelinForYa]:
Ah, th’memories …
3 houses down from me in my old neighborhood was a family whose father was a TV-Repairman. He actually made HOUSE-CALLS!!!?! Like an old-fashioned doctor (from a generation before HIM), he carried a black leather bag, filled with all the various VACCUUM-TUBES he might need, to replace whichever one had burned-out in our old Black-&-White TV. Such a sweet ol’ guy … miss him.
LOL!!!! Well, I certainly wasn’t expecting THAT!! 🙂
I want the original art, please. 🙂 I forget what you said the magic button is, but point me to it & I’ll drop $$ your way.
Never mind, I found the button. The dough is winging your way. 🙂
You’ll need to click the ‘contact’ or ’email’ button and let me know where to send it and how you’d like it inscribed!
EMail sent!
too many papers on you Lone Ranger Soupy?
You wanna see my desk?! 😉
This one made me choke before I laughed, I t’s a bit TOO close for comfort. 😉
chuckles
you DON’T want to see my desk either.
the rest I TRY to keep in order but…I never manage with my desk since where I work.
so NO WORRIES.
Pfft.. Amateur.. I AM IN TECHNOCOLOR!!!
So the next folder will be labeled “In High Def”?
The last television show I can recall using “In Color” was Police Squad! and ABC only aired four of the six episodes. Funny as the movies were the TV show blew them out of the water.
I hope it’s not the paper that blew away.
3 network affiliates and 2 indy, all on VHF. (It was LA) PBS and UHF came later.
They gotta get you to buy the new-fangled color sets, though. And when you reflect on it, what a rip! B&W lasted about 10 years before they tried to foister color. Of course in Europe they were changing the scan rates pretty frequently.
Trying to figure out if someone is jumping off of an off screen stage, being tossed in the air, or sky-diving into the crowd of people behind them xD Also the tags? Is the horse silver? If so, she needs to yell “Hi-ho Silver, AWAY!” as she leaves.
You know, I’ve worked with horses, before, and that’s a pretty decent looking horse.