

Someone started the conversation about monochrome tones not being what they represented in B&W productions. The camera of record at the time of "I Love Lucy" was actually the great big 16mm jobbie (suitable for bicep curls). It was a completely different frame size and socket format, meant to improve the picture quality of 8mm movies. Levine can bear witness:įirst, while the pirated home movie here may have been in the then-rare 8mm, Super 8 would not be invented for about another decade. Here are a couple of answers to the burning questions above, to which only certified geezers such as I, Mr. I had to go find the pilot that eventually aired to compare them because at the time I never watched the show (I lived in an apartment with three other girls and two guys in 1972, so it was hard for me to see the premise as in any way interesting!). Interesting stuff: the first unaired pilot is, as you said, written by Larry Gelbart and has two different women in the leads the second one, which lacks only Suzanne Somers from the eventual cast, is actually what I guess was intended to be the show's second episode. Re obscure video: I have found elsewhere on the net (but not on a site to which I can post a link) copies of the two earlier pilots of THREE'S COMPANY that you posted only to find that YouTube had taken them down.

What's the etiquette here? Is it done to send a note of condolence? Friday question: I recently had occasion to meet and have lunch with a producer on a successful show that has just been cancelled.
