Perry Como Show (12th April 1958)

This is an ultra rare colour kinescope recording of the Perry Como Show which aired in living colour on NBC on 12th April 1958. Colour kinescope film recordings of 50s colour TV shows are very rare opposed to the common B&W kinescopes so this is one of very few known examples to survive. I actually downloaded this video from here • The Perry Como Show - ... and did a colour correction edit to get the colours looking closer to the original and re-upload it for the viewer to see it in better quality, the original upload as seen the picture is very reddish which is a common problem with old colour film stocks after they degrade with age.

[@davedee4382]

Amazing! Thank you for posting!

[@JohnnyHolidaySings]

Thanks for posting

[@goodiesguy]

Amazing. Cheers for linking to the original clip too, i'm gonna download and have a go myself at some colour correction and maybe some dirt removal.

[@jamescowley6195]

You feel good when you get through watching The Perry Como Show, It be great if Hollywood would entertain the people

[@batterymakermarkii2654]

Nope. They gotta lecture

[@dguy0386]

oh they entertain alright, just not in a quality way or in a way that sits well with people that have a good moral compass, and the poorly done inclusiveness and propaganda do get old as well

[@bikutavictor7920]

So amazing！

[@dguy0386]

peg o my heart would've been around 45 years old at the time, that's something that's always impressed me, how songs from the turn of the century were still well known and often got covers by new singers well into the 50s and 60s

[@davidmatyjasik4081]

Perry Como makes singing so effortless and natural. He sings a variety of songs. He seems to sing something for everyone . He was my Father's favorite singer. Now, that I'm older I can appreciate what my Father liked about him. He put together a fantastic show Mitch Ayers and the Ray Charles Singers. We'll never see shows like that anymore.

[@musicom67]

Yes. this is a very rare 'lenticular color' kinnie - which was considered a failure. Some "Your Hit Parades" still exists from this year. The most famous is the 'tilted table' skit clip from "The Ernie Kovacs Show" still found here....Shot at the Avenue M Color Studios in Brooklyn (the old Vitagraph studios)....

[@itisonlyadream]

I disagree that this was a lenticular color kinescope. Lenticular kinescopes were actually photographed on fine grain black and black and white reversal film. The color was encoded on the B&W film in the form of very thin vertical RGB stripes. The film itself will appear to be in black and white unless a lenticular screen with a matching RGB stripe pattern is precisely aligned with the stripes on the film and used to view the film. In the case of a lenticular kinescope, there is no color dye in the film and for this reason the color on lenticular kinescopes can't fade over time. This is because the color is supplied by RGB filters in the lenticular screen used to view the kinescope. When viewed through a matching RBG lenticular screen, the color looks exactly the way it did the day the kinescope was developed, so no color correction (such as was used with this video) is necessary. This kinescope was most likely made on ANSCO or Eastman Kodak color reversal film. Unlike a lenticular kinescope, color reversal film fades over long periods of time.

[@dw438]

Too early for Brooklyn. This was from the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan. Como’s show moved to Brooklyn 1960 or so.

[@a1wireless1964]

I wonder if the kine transfer was done with a 22AXP22 or a 22CYP22 or 15GP22?

[@altfactor]

Does a color kinescope of the entire show exist?

[@oldtvhistory]

Don't know, you're best to ask the original uploader of this kinescope kzbin.info/www/bejne/m36xfHl6m957lbc

[@wilfredosantana1]

The Honeymooners was way better!