Friday, November 13, 2015

THE MASKED MAN CHROMATIC ABERRATION

Everyone knows that the Lone Ranger was supposed to wear an iconic black mask. He actually did so for the last two years that he was on television--1956 and 1957, when the episodes were filmed in color. However, from 1949 through 1955, when the shows were shot in black-and-white, he sported purple face gear. On black-and-white TV, the purple appeared to have been even a blacker black than if an actual black mask had been used.
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