... and add image dithering to get that old-school grainyness to their films, and so on and so forth, i took a course in high school in television production that taught us a lot on how to do that with today's technology, though i never did understand why we didn't just break out some old equipment and go for it tht way, would have been a lot more "real".....
as far as Svengoolie, he was the host of an old horror movie show on saturdays, based in Chicago, but i do believe he was nationally syndicated, he showed the ultra-cheesy movies like "White Zombie", "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", "Return of the Killer Tomatoes", and so forth, great stuff
fond memories.....