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Keep in mind people originally watching TOS were likely doing so on black and white TVs with a 10"-13" screen ten feet away. The sets looked no worse than Forbi
by giantrobot 4y ago
Keep in mind people originally watching TOS were likely doing so on black and white TVs with a 10"-13" screen ten feet away. The sets looked no worse than Forbidden Planet, a theatrical release from a decade prior.
Modern high definition scans of the original film looks hilariously bad on modern TVs. It looked far less bad on TVs contemporary with the original broadcasts.
- to11mtm 4y agoAlso I was talking about TOS era films which had much more proper sets.
- midoridensha 4y agoActually, many people then were getting color TVs. The reason the sets on ST:TOS were so colorful was to attract viewers who had spent a bunch of money for a new color TV set, and wanted to see things in vivid colors. The modern HD scans of the original film look fantastic. They do, however, show how low-budget the sets were, but the detail of the original film is quite amazing, and these old shows look far better than most stuff produced in the 1990s which was done using videotape.