I’ve noticed on most TV footage from that era it’s quality inconsistent.
Some are clear but with low resolution and others being like it’s being filmed from a camera pointed in the tube.
It may be the ladder cause back then there wasn’t a method to record live TV but was that the reason some footage look flashy and high contrast?
EDIT:Here’s two examples from 1955:
https://youtu.be/oTgNWCqMsuc
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Those old CRT TV’s didn’t have much resolution, and video tape not that more. If you’re watching it on a modern screen and it looks blurry, it was most likely a low quality video tape at NTSC resolution (720×525 interleaved).
If the source was film, then it has enough resolution that they can remaster it for HD TV. With today’s advanced image processing techniques they may be able to a decent upconversion from a low res recording.
You do not have to go back to the 50’s to see this. There are several 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s TV shows that people never bothered to remaster.
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