[QuadList] The Beatles, Washington D.C. 1964

[Scott Thomas]

I noted at the end of the video was an art-card advertising the upcoming Beatles movie, "A Hard Day's Night". That movie was black & white.
Could there have been a conscious decision to record black & white so as not to upstage the film?

Probably more likely an equipment or money issue, but it was just a thought.
Now that I think about it more, even if it was recorded in color on videotape, that wouldn't preclude the kine-reels being made black & white.

Scot Thomas

On Nov 17, 2010, at 8:55 AM, David Crosthwait wrote:

> Ed,
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> Ron states that it was a CBS truck that did the show from the stadium. Scott Thomas's posting mentioned CBS's involvement, which would make sense since Sullivan was a CBS show and that program just broke all records with The Beatles appearance (even though it was National General Corporation as the production company).  As far as the VTR location, I don't know yet.
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> Ron tells me also that, because of the non-color situation in Washington, the Burbank material was recorded in black & white. All apparently last minute decisions.
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> David
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