I Love Lucy - On Stage Color Footage (1951)

A Request from an "I Love Lucy" fan who lives in New Jersey, United States.

This short 8mm Color film Footage was fimed by an audience member of "I Love Lucy", on the evening of October 12, 1951, at Sound Stage #2 of Desilu Studios, Hollywood, California.

The episode fimed that night was 6th Episode of the First Season, "The Audition".(It was a remake of "I Love Lucy" pilot episode, which was presumed lost until 1990.)

Although there were many people who tried to capture the scene of filming, Jess Oppenheimer, the producer and writer of "I Love Lucy", prohibited it, because of the possibilities of Leaking. Because of this, this footage is the only surviving material of "Behind-the-Scenes" of this legendary sitcom. (It is said that Desi Arnaz filmed some filming scenes using his own 8mm movie camera, but it is not proven.)

Of all four main stars, Vivian Vance is not appearing in this footage. Jess Oppenheimer, and the famous cameraman, Karl Freund, are seen briefly.

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[baltartorok4u]

early video piracy lol

[MonsieurNiceGuy]

Adding the color scenes into the proper footage provides context and was 100% the correct thing to do.

[babiphat20]

completely agree!

[carol tenge]

as a seperate post, put on the full uncut color footage. This is history. Thank you, Carol

[Lisa D]

thelonelyslayer-you are absolutely correct-i feel this way about all B&W film-in fact there is a mystery about it, not just an innocense. I can't imagine seeing half of my favorite movies or sitcomes in color, it just makes it too real.

[debco12]

What a treasure!

[gardner900]

you realise you can layer video over a different audio, right?

[gvader]

This is pretty freaking cool! Great video!

[Dondj55]

That was fantastic! Like someone said it was great that they mixed the the color and the black & white.

[sandibeche]

I think I would have enjoyed this more had there been more color scenes. If there was 30 seconds out of over 4 minutes of film that was a lot.

[nogoodbastid]

the guy filming did an even better job than ol' abe zapruder. the humor is lacking in this footage, though.