A Date With Your Outtakes!

[Laceykat66]

@servedwithasmile No, this was the film. An announcer filled in all of the commentary.

It is cheaper to film this way. Like silent films, the director could do live editing by telling the actors how to react etc. All of the information, in any language, was added later.

[msdemos]

Anybody happen to know who the actress was playing "Daughter" ???

She was pretty cute.......



[MelissaTwosheds]

It seems the out takes spent more time on the girl compared to the rest of the members of the 'family'.

How many shots of her do we really need of her washing dishes, cutting cake and pouring coffee?

Good find though.

[thisfreemind]

Aw, that laugh at 3:38 is just too cute. Too bad this wasn't the version most people saw (or the MST3K version)

[blackadder3]

@ :54 the phone isn't plugged in, it's a magic phone!

[MysterySTForever]

I can't tell if they're messing up! I'm sure they're not forgetting their lines.

[Chenolicious1]

The daughter's pretty cute!!!

[jvbradley]

I can understand why there'd be no sound in the outtake video. In the video that was released, the only sound you heard was the narrator speaking.

[aeonjoey]

WOW, this is a REALLY good find! Thank you so much! it's amazing!

[lavenderliberal]

How cool is this! Thank you! Love it!

[shockisallinyourhead]

i dont know if you guys feel this but watching this in color and out takes is more depressing it shows that the 50s were as miserable as the new millennium

[dhart1977]

It would have made more sense if it had sound.

[ricarleite]

So this was shot in color, but distributed in b&w? Makes sense. One of my favorite MST3K shorts, though.

[scooterdooter]

@ricarleite I'd guess that b&w prints were cheaper than color prints to mass produce and distribute.

[finnobrit1]

I think this proves that you really can find anything on the internet. :)

[VerdantNight]

I love the daughter's reaction at 6:13 when she just can't help cracking up. :-)

I just wish there were sound to this. Oh well, still an interesting bit of vintage Americana.

[paradiseshow1988]

That green color paint in the kitchen must have been EXTREMELY popular back then. It's in tons of tv shows from the 60s, and my 92 year old grandmother's rooms have been that color my entire life. It's a must have for mid-century retro look.

[AtomicSpike]

Wow. Just wow. After having seen the black-and-white short a million times on MST3K, it's surreal to see these actors in color. It's amazing that this footage has actually survived all these years. Thanks for finding it and posting it.

On a side note, I love the teenage son's reaction at 6:45.

[TheLonelySoldier]

We can't put the audio back into the film without losing the color Earl...

[Bureyeanne]

The girl seems to keep forgetting one of her lines. I wonder why they choose to go with the voice over since it appears there was memorized text. that is unless they couldn't and the end afford ADR. (Audio Dialog Replacement)

[scorpionrenderlord]

6:19 - Oh my gosh!!!

[DetSonnyCrockett]

If the outtakes were in color, why wasn't the movie???

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

I don't know.

[Bureyeanne]

My bet was the MST3K version is a copy. It may have been a lot cheaper for them to have distributed black and white copies.. Plus a new print had to be made for the voice over track. I was actually on the set of an instructional school video. The company was 3 people and guys who volunteered from our acting class. The video camera was the same as my dad's. In short these folks cut corners as much as possible ie. voice over vs production sound.

[UKISOCIETY]

@DrGregoryHouseIT It's possible that the original was filmed in color but subsequent copies done in b/w to save money.

[aeonjoey]

@DetSonnyCrockett yeah, and it looks remarkably GOOD even with youtube compression, wow!

[superbu1]

@DetSonnyCrockett

I'll speculate that no color prints of the finished film have surfaced because, in those days, for the purposes this film was used for, it would have been too expensive to provide color prints. But obviously it was shot in color. It's a shame a full color print of the finished product has never shown up.

[ricarleite]

@DetSonnyCrockett Because it was cheaper to produce b&w copies.

[dream6cold6code6]

@DetSonnyCrockett

many people back then didn't have colour TV because it was really expensive plus colour TV was not on mass production because they need to get rid of the black and white TV still selling first.

hence despite this being in colour the final product would always or mostly result in a black and white finish.

colour TV were not even affordable to everyone until 1970's.

[ladylike1980]

Why didn't the daughter become famous?

She is beautiful and seems to be a good actress? Who are the actors in this?

[jekratz]

The narrator in the actual movie is Hugh Beaumont (yes....Mr. Cleaver).

[ladylike1980]

Thanks for the info.  I loved the show

Leave it to Beaver.

[14coldplay]

nuclear families creep the hell out of me. :[

[switzerlicious]

i mean, this is good and all, but i'd rather watch it with the director's commentary.  j/k

[needles1987]

The daughter in this is hot.

[TheUntakenUsername]

The daughter in this is in her sixties, dude.

[ratchet1215]

Nice.

[BrianMaki2005]

This Looks Really good,but there's no sound alas,so it's less effective.Can You Fix That?

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

I'm sorry, it's actually like that. Download it and you'll find out. Again, sorry.

[simpsonsfan123456]

my grandma told me that when she was 16, she was sister in this. no joke

[simpsonsfan123456]

boring

[malathis0]

Where...the HELL...did you find this?!

[aeonjoey]

@malathis0 I KNOW! WOW!!!!

[VolkswagenNut1969]

It almost looks like they had fun shooting this, because they displayed the emotion and personality that the film ruthlessly and repeatedly insists you avoid!

[baroquejen]

2:56 - Jeez, that's a lot of coffee!

[DAJ01]

Proof that color DID in fact exist during the 50s!

[shannonm75]

The girl looks familar. Is she a well known actress?

[paradiseshow1988]

She reminds me of Naomi from "Mama's Family" with Vicki Lawrence.

[shannonm75]

She does have the eyes!

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

Yep.

[IfThereBeThorns]

No audio for me, also.

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

There actually is none.

[IfThereBeThorns]

Yep! I kept reading and realized that after I'd commented!

[Herbert7J]

I've enjoyed this film very much. Thank you for posting the outtakes in color. It is amazing to see what they did with color in 1950--bright blues and greens in the kitchen, clean white appliances.

[fromthesidelines]

"A Date With Your Family" (1950) was originally filmed in color, and released in both color AND black & white prints. The distributor charged schools and community groups MORE to rent the color version. This is why the B&W print is the only one available today. The footage was shot silent, with music and narration added later, 'Fank86'. The outttakes reflect this.

[Fank86]

And why is there no audio?

[Andromeda97466]

It's true, I saw it in one of the orginal musicals that was originally black & white, but they colored it!

[gobbidge]

They colored the outtakes but not the movie?

[Andromeda97466]

Its in color because they painted EVERY SINGLE FRAME, BY HAND!!!

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

Really?

[threedotsdead]

No, not really.

[ilikechickentacos]

no freaking way...where does one even FIND this stuff?? And why is it in color if the final version was black-and-white?

[DrGregoryHouseIT]

Don't ask me...