Talk:Hullabaloo (TV series)

Color?

Was this in color ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dogru144 (talk • contribs) 13 March 2010

The article implies that it was, yes. "Much of the series' color videotaped footage was later dubbed over to kinescope on film - as such copied in black and white." After you left your comment, this was added: "Only three half-hour episodes are known to exist in their original videotaped form."

In other words, it was taped and broadcast in color, but only 3 episodes'-worth of those tapes were saved; the rest of the series was copied to black & white film (by filming a video monitor as it played the original color tapes) and the original tapes were lost, or, more likely, just taped over, as was common practice in those days. Feel free to reword the article to better explain. —mjb (talk) 18:56, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

I can't believe any television studio / producer would ever do such a thing. Take a good color original and convert it to black and white (losing a generation of image quality in the process, as well as the color signal), and then lose or record over the original. WTF? (I'm not saying they didn't do this — what do I know? — only that it's unbelievable that anyone would!) Captain Quirk (talk) 19:34, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Simple economic and technological pragmatism, however lamentable it may seem to us now. In the mid-1960s, a one-hour reel of 2-inch videotape cost $300, which equates to well over $2000 in 2015 dollars, and it could only be played on a very large and expensive (~$50,000) quadruplex videotape console suitable only for a professional TV studio. If an executive or performer wanted to keep a copy of a show, the solution was to make a much less expensive and easily projected 16 mm black-and-white kinescope film from the videotape, then recycle the tape. Kinescope films could be made in color and sometimes were, but the much higher cost of color film stock (roughly three times the cost of B&W) was a very effective disincentive. 66.81.242.169 (talk) 05:06, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

In popular culture

Long before being mentioned by The Ramones, and shown in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Hullabaloo was mimicked in the 1967 non-beach Beach party movie "The Cool Ones." The fictional show that imitates Hullaballoo was called "Whiz-Bam, and had the same cooper lettering, piled behind the performers in a non-linear manner. -------User:DanTD (talk) 21:58, 17 July 2022 (UTC)