Due to budgetary constraints in its second season, the network decided to cut costs by shooting some episodes on videotape rather than film. Because videotape was a relatively primitive medium in the early 1960s, the editing of tape was next to impossible. Thus, each of the six episodes was "camera-cut", as in live television, on a studio soundstage, using a total of four cameras. The requisite multicamera set-up of the videotape experiment pretty much precluded location shooting, severely limiting the potential scope of the storylines, and so the short-lived experiment was ultimately abandoned. The limitations of using videotape (e.g., it could not be edited as cleanly as film, and its visual quality was poorer) led the network to switch back to film for the rest of the series, despite the greater cost. The six videotaped episodes were titled: Ai confini della realtà : The Lateness of the Hour (1960); Ai confini della realtà : Static (1961); Ai confini della realtà : The Whole Truth (1961); Ai confini della realtà : The Night of the Meek (1960); Ai confini della realtà : Twenty Two (1961); and Ai confini della realtà : Long Distance Call (1961); and then transferred to film for broadcast, which saved the producers about five thousand dollars per episode.
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