I Love Lucy Best Moments In Color Part 2 

Hope you enjoyed it!

@@Ross-117 thank you so much for posting this!

I agree I still laugh as hard

@@crmay72 I prefer the black and white

She really looked a lot like Debra Messing

Me too!

Right 2 bad i already own it as it is on regular dvd

Yeah the colors are accurate, they used old design sketches, technology, and old on set color footage to get the colors. They then do it frame by frame, I think I saw a thing somewhere that said each episode took 20 hours to do!

@@Ross-117 wow so good to know I head otherwise re: coloirzation. Thank you.

Haha I wouldn’t say it makes it ugly, but it certainly completely changes the look of the show! The colorization really is so much better then the original job from the 90s.

It really does, they did an excellent job colorizing it!

Been watching it for over 60 years.

The colorization they did on this was amazing!

It really is great colorizing, but I did not colorize it myself (Haha), CBS did.

@@Ross-117 Thank you for sharing it regardless.. I may not have caught it otherwise!

They really have!

Agreed!

That’s why I love it!

Haha I think the joke was that she was skinny, especially when Fred who was obviously bigger was making the jokes most of the time.

She was actually 2 years older than Lucy, but I get your point. If I remember correctly, her contract required her to be a certain weight (like 10lbs heavier than Lucy or something like that). It's crazy to think that someone of average weight being called fat. Those were the times with its own standard of beauty 🤷🏽‍♀

Ethel was thin and very pretty. Fred was always complaining but that coot was damn lucky to have her.😆

Lucy and Ethel actually wear the same dress sometimes. (It’s trimming had little arrows along the pockets I think.) why they always play her like she’s bigger than Lucy?!

Back in the 1940's Vivian Vance was a regular star on the stage where she would often play thin glamourous women.

Lol!!

I think one day when the technology gets cheap enough they will.

Some would certainly agree with you!

It really is… just a little odd

I never thought about it like that!

I think so too!

They were really pretty!

Well maybe consider how condescending it was towards women first.

To just piggyback on Nelli. This was also before the civil rights movement, back when political figures were still getting assassinated. It’s less than a century after slavery *kind of* ended. Let’s not even mention gay rights. So, who was America better for?

Yes, the 1950's was a great time to be alive in America: for the WHITE MALE!!!

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It is really eye candy, everything looks so nice.

@@jasonbaileystudent9088 I couldn't agree more!

@@jasonbaileystudent9088 Me too!

Me too.

Wow I never thought about it like that!

I've thought that about the audience as well.

Me too!

How do they colorize. I mean are they the colors they were wearing at that time

ME Too!! I have it all in B&W

I love the show too. But I'm in the group of fans that believes that colorization never looks right or natural. The people who do the process cannot possibly know all the correct hues for every prop and shirt and wall; the majority of this is guesswork ("We'll make the kitchen curtains yellow", etc etc). The only things we can copy correctly in colorization are based on the still photos or the limited pieces of footage that were actually shot in color on the _I Love Lucy_ set back in the '50s. Nothing wrong with black and white. It gives the classic shows from yesteryear a certain charm. I'd hate if someone added color to The Twilight Zone; that would change its particular vibe completely, all those deep shadows and stark whites and cool grays. Plus, I used to hate when they colorized the first seasons of Bewitched or Gilligan's Island on cable TV ... it always looked fake and tacky.

@@eduardo_corrochio I agree and by the way, in TV shows shot in b&w, the sets and costumes are mostly gray scale for b&w cinematography. So the studio audience did not see all these colors. If you look at what few color photos there are of this or any other TV show shot in b&w, they are mostly dressed in shades of black, white and various shades of gray. If you look at the early 1960's "The Lucy Show", CBS' on-going grudge against filming and broadcasting in color due to RCA (which owned NBC) winning the NTSC electronic color standard, Lucille Ball was so done with CBS' anti-color stance that she paid out of her own Desilu pockets to film the first 2 seasons in color. However, CBS refused to broadcast the episodes in color. Only years later in rerun syndication did we see the first 2 seasons in color. But because they were being broadcast in b&w, even though color film was used, the sets were mostly still decorated in gray scale. When CBS finally came gave in to color about 1965-66 season, "The Lucy Show" was at last filmed and broadcast in color, its sets and costumes were re-done for color TV.

Me too!

Thank you very much! CBS actually colorized these clips, I compiled and edited them.

It really does!

Supposedly the colors are accurate, they are very vibrant though I wonder the same thing!

I know, it really is amazing they did it this well!

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much!

I think one day when the technology gets advanced enough they will!

Me too!

She really was so talented and pretty!

Agreed!

She absolutely did

Glad you enjoyed it!

Haha!

I have always wanted to visit!

They looked at sketches from the show and notes written down for production in addition to color footage taken by attendees of the live takings.

That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard that before

That actually makes perfect sense

That makes absolutely no sense. Whether in B&W or color, nothing distracts from the comedy or stars of this iconic show.

Thanks so much!

Haha I don’t colorize these episodes, only 16 have been colorized by CBS. If you like this I would recommend purchasing the I Love Lucy Colorized Collection, a dvd set with all the colorized episodes (Except 1).

That’s what a lot of people have said, honestly I kinda agree but feel like that something as big as her hair wouldn’t be messed up like that. She did use henna to die her hair, so it was very bright in real life.

I agree, although the things they used to dye their hair back then made their hair vibrant (Henna, etc).

Yeah some of the colorization makes her hair look a little bit too bright, it almost looks fake. In real life her hair was more of a ginger color, it wasn't orange like a cartoon

It’s very pretty!

Well, it WAS unnatural, wasn't it? 😅

Wow!

Haha some certainly think so!

Me too!

Me too!!

Lol!

Some don't, personally for me as long as the original black and white is available I see it as an added bonus.

Haha!

I’ve actually thought about it, I think they made that choice because the tv would have been black and white at the time (In the 50s).

So, the colorization was done as the show would have looked if it was taped in color. With this show specifically Desi Arnaz wanted to originally do it in color, but the expense was too high and the footage quality not as good (thank goodness he didn't, that is why we can still watch it in high quality by today's standards). If the show would have aired then that little tv wouldn't have been a color one and would have still looked black and white, the colorization is to make it seem like you are in their world more. I was actually confused too at first and had to look into it!

@@Ross-117 I see what you mean. And I'm sure you meant to say "filmed" instead of "taped", LOL. Somewhere, cinematographer Karl Freund is wincing. Seriously, thank you for the reply. :)

Thank you!

It’s the episode ‘Bonus Bucks’!

I noticed that too!

Like you, I have all the episodes and have watched them many many times. ♥️ I just don’t love it in color. Do you think these are the real colors of their clothing? I don’t know the process of “colorizing” it, so I always wonder how they come up with the colors. The film is black and white. How would anyone know now what color everything was? Or am I totally naive to the process? Anyone know?

Agreed!

Desi Arnaz actually wanted the show to be in color originally! It was too much money and the adoption of color tv hadn't fully taken place yet. I'm so so glad he went with black and white because the quality of the picture is soo much better then the color shows of the time (Like the Lucy show after it switched to color!)

@@Ross-117 It is true. The black and white was good. I do like the color version, I still love the black and white I find the episodes to be classic

Me too!

Haha!

Yes, on Amazon for around 20 dollars give or take they sell the ‘I Love Lucy Colorized Collection’. It’s a set of dvds that contains the 16 (I think) colorized episodes and extras, it’s a great purchase!

Me too!

The color really breathes fresh new life into it!

It really is so great!

That would be amazing! I think in a bit when the technology gets advanced enough they will.

Thank you!!

It really is!

It is!

Me too!!

Haha!

Me too!

I hope the episodes go back to airing too!

I remember tensing up a bit when Ricky looked in her handbag (Haha they are like the untouchable object now)!

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