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

Sep 4 2020 - TV Appearances

 

According to a New Scientist article in early 2000s, women really do look fatter on television, while men look more hunky, say researchers at the University of Liverpool. They investigated differences between 2D images such as TV pictures and 3D images produced using stereoscopic cameras. It is a perceived wisdom in the broadcasting industry that TV cameras make people look about four kilograms(10 lbs)  heavier than they are.   Another article says:  "Your eyes are placed on your face horizontally, so you get a 'widescreen' view of the world," he said. "TV—specifically, NTSC—is nearly square (4:3), so you are significantly modifying your view of the world, not just by 'zooming in' and isolating the TV in your view, but also by changing your entire perspective." Watson said that it's not hard to see how your brain might try to compensate for this by stretching things out a little, therefore making people look wider. And other articles say that any camera will have this effect.  To highlight the way that focal length can affect the shape of the face, Business Insider's article showed a person's head in a series of nine portraits at 20mm, 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mm, 70mm, 105mm, 150mm, and 200mm.   Take a look at it HERE.   This is known as the Hitchcok zoom with it expanding out.   That article says that the best way to avoid extra pounds is to use 88mm to 135mm lenses.  I am right on it. I found this wonderful Georgian Bay scene in the archives.

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