June 14 2023 - That Old Television Set

 

Isn't that so nostalgic?  It looks like a colour image from the 1960s, doesn't it? Everything sort of pinky and blue. Switching to color wasn’t as easy as flipping a switch. Jack Chertok, producer of My Favorite Martian, told Broadcasting magazine in August of 1965 that there would be problems with some of the special effects used in the series: “Many of them depend on wires which we’ve kept hidden from viewers by using black wires against a black background. Now we’ll have to use colors matching the colored backgrounds."   I seem to remember Bonanza was a very colourful show.  And that they colourized the grass and other parts of the scenery to make it vibrant.  Certainly Bonanza was called the "Color television trailblazer".  Such a long-running show, there are lots of facts about it. Alas, I didn't find any colour-painting facts. Colour TV was a vast success.  In January of 1968, TVB found that households with color television sets were watching between 40 and 70 more minutes of television on a daily basis than households with black-and-white sets Here's some peeling paint on a transport truck - it seems surreal it is so colourful.  And isn't it so curious that one can find a landscape scene somewhere in the mess of peeling paint and plastic. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

July 22 2021 - George Jetson

 

The Jetsons was an American animated sitcom that ran from 1962 to 1963.  George was the father who worked at Spacely Space Sprockets for an hour a day two days a week. Alternately, he is said to work two hours a day, three days a week. He and his wife, Jane, had red/orange hair, their son was blond, and their daughter had white hair.  Sometimes George has brown hair and Jane had blonde hair. I attribute this strange set of variations to the fact that this was the first colour cartoon for Hanna-Barbera, and the cartoonists were fooling around. The Jetsons lived in Orbit City. The city's architecture has all homes and businesses raised high above the ground on adjustable columns. George Jetson lives with his family in the Skypad Apartments: his wife Jane is a homemaker, their teenage daughter Judy attends Orbit High School, and their son Elroy attends Little Dipper School. There's a robot maid named Rosie, or sometimes Rosey. Of course there's a dog - Astro.  Some fans decided that the sky-bound Jetsons are living high above the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the Flintstones on the ground below.  The two families met in the 1987 movie The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones.   We have access to the future - go to future timeline.net HERE.  Take a look at the  current timeline:  Find out that Europe's largest battery came online on July 15th 2021, that the first 3D printed school, opened in Malawi on July 13th, 2021.  The first robotic pizza restaurant opened in Paris on July 11th, 2021.  And what about the world's oldest people?  There are 573,000 centenarians currently, and it is expected to reach over 19 million by the year 2100.  If we were to be so pandemic-prepared, where are the predictions of pandemics?  Predictions from the past are at Paleofuture HERE.   No retrievals for pandemics. There are lots of earthquake predictions. And lots of gadgets being predicted.  The Jetsons only lasted a season, and then got retired to Saturday morning kid shows.  It was a fun kids show.