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Dizzy Arnizzy

12-14-2005, 12:08 AM

Here are some screen captures from the Columbia House ILL Christmas Special DVD:

First a few from DVD menu:

You can select to watch the episode in black & white or color.

When you select black & white, the menu changes to a black & white picture of Lucy in a Santa suit:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/NEWILLCH1.jpg

When you select color, the menu changes to a colorized picture of Lucy in a Santa suit:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/NEWILLCH2.jpg

You can also select ‘Production Notes’...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/NEWILLCH3.jpg

Here’s a screen cap of the production notes included on the DVD:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/NEWILLCH4.jpg

Now for screen caps of the actual episode...

Here’s a couple from the colorized opening of this episode:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLNEW2.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLNEW1.jpg

And the rest of the episode:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS3.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS4.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLAVATAR.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS5.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS6.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS7.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS8.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS9.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS10.jpg

Dizzy Arnizzy

12-14-2005, 12:08 AM

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS11.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS12.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS15.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS13.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS14.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS16.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS19.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS18.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS20.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS21.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS22.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS26.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS28.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS27.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS25.jpg

Dizzy Arnizzy

12-14-2005, 12:09 AM

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS24.jpg

And here’s one from the ending credits of the episode:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/ILLCHSTMAS29.jpg

Compared to an original color picture taken on the set when this episode was being filmed...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y10/DizzyArnizzy/LUCYCHRISTMAS3.jpg

...I think they did a pretty good job with the colorizing.

Hope you all enjoyed these!! :D

msuzanne69

12-14-2005, 02:21 AM

Was that some kind of special to get the colorized episode from Columbia House? Or can you just purchase it?

tv star collector

12-14-2005, 10:08 AM

TV Girl 06

12-14-2005, 10:10 AM

Wow, that's really cool. Thanks for posting. I'll be sure to buy it.

Freddy Fillmore

12-17-2005, 09:49 PM

These photos are a prize!!!:cool:

Dizzy Arnizzy

01-30-2006, 11:56 AM

Can someone tell me more about the menus? Do the black & white/color options come up after you click on "Play episode" or is it on the main menu? Thanks.
No, the black & white/color options are on the main menu...those come up right when the DVD loads in the DVD player. :)

Dizzy Arnizzy

01-30-2006, 05:24 PM

So those first two pics are the main menu?
Correct. :)

Dizzy Arnizzy

01-31-2006, 09:42 AM

Thanks for the info. :)

No problem. :)

gilligan fanatic

01-31-2006, 11:39 AM

hey, that is great. Sorry I did not reply when it was first posted. That is very neat.

PolarCub75@aol.com

02-03-2006, 09:55 PM

Thank you so much, Dizzy Arnizzy for posting these. I'm so glad that they are not only releasing the Christmas Special as part of the DVD set, but the colorized version as well. I used to have the colorized version on a VHS tape, but it broke. :( What about the opening credits of both the black and white and the colorized version the Christmas special. What do they look like? Would you be able to post pics of them, please? I'd love to see them. I wonder why they didn't colorize the "flashback" scenes, too? That would have been awesome. :) ;)

jjjj

03-12-2006, 10:06 PM

How can anyone possibly say that the colorization was done well? Look at the photo that was taken of Lucy and Ricky when the episode was being filmed...the curtains are red, and the living room is painted in blue & white. In the colorized episode, the curtains have changed to royal blue, and the living room to brown & white...and Ricky's suit has changed color, too! Huh??????? The colorization doesn't seem very authentic to me!!! :confused: :confused: :confused:

TV Guy

03-25-2006, 09:30 PM

Too many primary colors in the colorized version - everything is way too bright. I remember watching it when it aired 15 years ago, and everything looked better when I turned the color on my TV down a few notches.

From what I remember, the opening credits of this colorized episode remained in black and white, with the exception of a green piece of holly in the corner of the credits.

Colorization has come a long way since then - Columbia colorized some "Three Stooges" shorts recently, and the results are much better. Still, colorization has pretty much lost favor, so I don't think we'll see much more of it.

PolarCub75@aol.com

03-25-2006, 10:57 PM

That's what I thought, too, TV Guy. All of the colors are way too bright. I wonder why they colorized it the way they did.

The opening credit's of the I Love Lucy Christmas Show were indeed in color. The satin was light purple and the heart was pink with the holly in the corner. I don't remember what color the lettering or the outline of the heart was. I wonder if that was the original color of that, too. The only reason why I say this is because on the old I Love Lucy Video Collection from CBS/FOX, they would show a montage of clips to the them song (vocal sung by Desi) followed by the "heart on satin" in color. The satin was a dark shade of pink, while the heart was a light shade of pink. The heart outline and letters were a dark red. I wonder which is the original color. How will we ever know, right? I wonder if the original opening credits were really black and white schemes, filmed in black and white, with no color at all.

MichaelKane20

03-27-2006, 12:42 AM

Why wont they just colorize every episode of ILL

folbartman

04-06-2006, 02:37 AM

Dizzy How did you get ahold of the DVD set early, are you one of the people working on producing the last season dvd set??? I am so amazed how great everything looks in color, wow, so brilliant and different than what we are used to. AMAZING!!!!

So do i have this right, they will have both the B&W and Color episode on the dvd disc, I hope they do show the colored episode and not just the screen caps of it. WOW!!!!!

THANKS DIZZY

I wish they would colorize I love lucy (ALL EPISODES) and release them on DVD. That would be spectacular. It looks so much better, but I understand how people would be complaining that it wasn't shot in color originally.

Dizzy where did you get your hands on the dvd set already?

NOVARick

06-04-2006, 09:56 PM

Here are some screen captures from the Columbia House ILL Christmas Special DVD:

Thanks so much for posting these screen caps! I'll be buying Season Six soon myself. Boy, has this colorization technology changed (improved) since 1990! I recently purchased the first season of "Bewitched" (colorized version). I believe it was colorized about five years ago. It's so well done that, unless you pay REALLY close attention, you will forget you're watching a show that's been colorized. Not so with this ILL Christmas show.