Day for Night

I remember watching this on TV during its original network run in the 1960's. What always stood out for me was how terrible looking the night scenes were. I found out later they shot using an old film-making technique called Day for Night. Where night time scenes are shot during the day and darkened in the film processing to look like it was shot at night.

This was done to save those very expensive "Golden Hours" overtime when the crew shoots past normal daytime hours (usually after 5 pm).

The dead giveaway is the very pronounced shadows that appear in the processed scenes. Way deeper shadows then artificial light or moonlight would cast.

Since the Green Hornet usually only came out at night there were many of these Day for Night scenes in every show. Also, the Black Beauty had green headlights which was a dead giveaway at night for a hero that is actually wanted by the police. You could see that car coming from a mile away.

Even though this show was a spinoff from the 60's Batman show the Green Hornet wasn't camp like Batman was. It tried for a more adult audience. I think that the CW might remake this today. It would be better than The Flash or Arrow remakes currently on.