This episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following:
Question of the Day: Why was the color green chosen for Chroma key/green screens?
Retrosponsor: Blue Coal
This Retrosponsor commercial is from a 1931 episode of The Blue Coal Minstrels.
Tidbits:
Beware of Blue Eyes (1921)
Ice Nickels (1938)
Police Get the Wrong Masked Man (1965)
Footnotes to History:
(Click on the link to the pdf file to read the original article.)
Luck on Mt. Tom (1889)
Self-Propelling Carriages (1895)
Trifles Found In Safety Box (1934)
Old Woman in the Shoe (1950)
Sneeze Heard ‘Round the Lot (1981)
