My understanding is that Desi deliberately chose certain shades of color for the set and costume designs knowing that when the episodes were televised in Black & White certain colors as seen on B&W tv sets would still stand out better in contrast with other shades of color next to each other. He was indeed a genius in this area of B &W film technology. Major film studios could have learned a thing or two from Desi.
That was Karl Freund the cinematographer... Director of Photography on I love Lucy who chose the set colors... Even having the walls painted a certain shade of gray to look better On B&W film. He's hired by Desi tho.
It was well know by that time dude, they made black and white movies from the start of the century. He was not better in this case than any other film maker.
The I Love Lucy shows in Hollywood were the funniest shows I've watched. When Lucy pretended to be Ricky's agent and got him fired! When Lucy was in disguise, and lit her, "fake nose on fire! I always wanted to see the color of the beautiful dresses Lucy wore in some of these episodes. I have every I Love Lucy show recorded and commercial-free I did myself ages ago, when they had an I Love Lucy marathon on TV, throughout a holiday weekend. This show used to come on at 7:30 PM when I was a child, and after it was over, it was time for bed. I had a big crush on Ricky when I was about 6-7 years old. LOL! XO
The Pontiac was already one of the most beautiful looking cars I’d ever seen in Black and white, seeing it an that popping blue color makes it even better.
Looking at it in color is like looking at it for the first time, and I have watched this episode many of times!! Watching now on Pluto TV all your old favorites ❤
'I Love Lucy' is the very first TV program I ever watched, and I must have been about 3 years old in the late 1950's. I watced this sitting in front of our old (new) big box TV in our Living Room. I can still hear my beautiful Mother's laughter when I didn't even know what laughter was. R.I.P. Mom I miss you. It all seems like some kind of a dream.
Lucy:”I’m sorry Ethel, Fred, I thought you were going too” Ethel:”oh darn it” Lucy:”Well that’s the way the ball bounces” Ricky:We’ll honey you’re not going either” Lucy:”oh darn it!” Ethel:”Well that’s the way the ball bounces!”😂😂😂😂
Bob Jellison played the bell hop--he had actually been in other I Love Lucy episodes-including one where he was the milkman trying to avoid a jealous husband-that Lucy paid him to do to teach Ricky a lesson about "gossiping"
Colorization has so improved since its early days. If only someone would finance the complete series colorized. The only thing wrong with this clip is that now I want to see the whole episode!
The little touches really add a lot, such as Lucy holding out Ricky's chair because she's so happy to be in Hollywood. It's not a funny line, but something that seems very real
If you are in Beverly Hills , you can still make the same turn into The Avalon Hotel .It still looks the same . Also a couple of Studebaker Commanders are in this scene and Ricky was keeping up with the old hearse in the next lane .
I Love Lucy is so wonderful, funny and nostalgia I absolutely love seeing the sitcom plays and episodes in color honestly it is such a awesome and snappy television show. ❤️🎼
I often wonder when I see these colorized snippets if they used the actual colors from photo stills from the set when this was originally filmed including the actual colors of Lucy and Ethel's dresses and Fred and Ricky's suits. Those 1950's colors sure were interesting. So many pastels. That would be something if Fred's shirt and beret were actually that color when they filmed the episode.
Oh this is so so cool! I have this on DVD but it's in black and white this will be my first time seeing it in color! Thank you so so much for uploading this! 👍😁
I just love the colors in this video. The past few years I've seen the I Love Lucy show colorized and I didn't like it at all. The colors look very natural and Thank You for sharing this video clip.
I miss my best friend. We always used to say she was Ethel and I was Lucy! (Nvm my red wig!, that was a coincidence lol) but I used to always be like “I HAVE A PLAN!” And she was always saying no! 😂😂😂
Fred's outfit really isn't that bad . He looks like a cool cat from the beatnick generation. For all you commenters below about correct era for Beat Generation and movement consider this . It officially started in the late 40's and gave way to the hippie movement in the early sixties . Google beatnick photo and a black and white photo of a sunglassed person with a beret and goatee from the 50's will confirm .
I checked out the hood where the hotel is, in Beverly Hills , it is called The Avalon .The hotel and hood are more or less the same . The stop sign has been changed , it also has the street sign on top of it West Olympic and Canon , the picket fence has been changed into a hedge and a new fire hydrant replaced the old fire hydrant , in front of the hotel.
@@retroguy9494 because a lot of old buildings have been torn down for new ones especially in the downtown area. The 1960s downtown revitalization caused many buildings and homes in downtown to be torn down. Plus all the freeway extensions running through downtown LA that were added during the 50s and 60s caused many more old buildings to be razed.
I really would love it if all 179 episodes from all six seasons of I Love Lucy was colorized and then they finally released a special Blu-ray Boxset with 179 episodes from all six seasons of I Love Lucy colorized
Wow... I've seen this episode in reruns and this is the first time I've seen Bobby's "Hail Cesar" imitation.... wonder why it's cut from the TV episode
I know a lot of people don't like colorized episodes of any Black and white show,but I do. Don't get me wrong, I still love ❤️the Black and white originals, but I like the colorized ones because then you get to see the actual colors of, well, everything.
I believe Fred paid for the room himself. There was one episode that showed their room (when Lucy tries to exchange the train tickets) and it was not a suite and nowhere near the size of the Ricardo's. If I remember, in one episode, Fred did not want to pay to go but Ethel argued that Fred never took her anywhere and he reminded her of the "lovely trip they took to Minnesota" and Ethel replied "yea I went to the Mayo Clinic to have my gallstones taken out." Since Fred got to ride in the car for free (refusing to pay for half the gas because the back seat would be empty anyway but would supply all the water), he paid for the room. Because Ricky sold the car, he paid for the Mertz's train tickets to go back to New York.
@@kevindouglas5333 First off, it was never explained exactly how long they were in Hollywood, especially since the trip straddled over both seasons 4 and 5 of the show. However, back in those days, people actually used to LIVE in hotels. It was somewhat common. Discounts were given if one rented by the month rather than by the night or week. Given the Mertz's were in a regular room and not a suite like the Ricardo's and if Fred rented by the month (MGM paid for the Ricardo's suite) it is plausible that he paid for it.
The black and white version seems to give it that old 1950's look. When it is in color it looks modern and like it was filmed today ! In the 1950's television was in black and white. It wasn't until the mid 1960's color television was introduced.
True. However, there was color in reality. And the people who colorized this did a faithful job of using color combinations that were in vogue at the time. The use of color is not distracting, but credible.
I always thought that this hotel suite was designed to be easily retconned into an apartment if they decided to permanently move Lucy and Ricky to LA. With Phillip Morris soon to bow out, perhaps the plan was to make the Pontiac sponsorship permanent and there would've been establishing shots of them arriving at destinations in their sponsored (in-universe too) car, but with a shakeup in division management it never came to pass.
I lived in San Francisco for 20 years and said hello to Kevin Bacon ..he was with his then children and saw Don Johnson as he was waiting next to the Yellow Barracuda on 24th st. in the Mission. think it was 86
@@howtubeableDifferent characters in the show commented on Lucy's hair color at times. I remember one in describing it said "l never saw hair that color in all my life." She always said she used a henna rinse on it. When Tallulah Bankhead was on a later version of the show after they moved to Connecticut, she argued with Lucy and said "I'll pull your pink hair out by it's black roots."
03:58 Desi often did this very funny "taken aback" surprise take. He was given much acclaim as a television innovator, but I think underrated as a comic actor.
If you watch this full episode, the part where the bell boy says he was in Ceaser pic and when Fred said what he said, isn’t in the original episode. You can look it up.
Wow! I love this episode in color. My mind saw it this way. I always imagined the car being blue. Maybe the well written scripts instilled the coloring through the lines despite the black and white format. But the old NYC apartment episodes, in color, look weird to me.
