Jack Crosby, a nephew of the Crosby tribe, was the first art director to design scenery for this show. The initial set design for a room looked like an open book, with a right side wing joining a flat center wall, the left wing wall extending the floor plan. Openings for doors and windows were located in various positions on each set. The set's painted color was neutral middle value beige-gray hues, with no wallpaper. Any hint at wallpaper, or texture, was provided by a scenic roller paint pattern which was vogue in this era. The scenery height was eight feet high. Usually, network soap opera sets are ten feet high. All of the sets were shallow in depth, minimum furniture, and set decoration. Usually, pictures were hung across wall expanses to establish an actor's or actress' movement through the set. Competition from NBC and CBS daytime drama ratings forced the producers into expanding the physical production elements of the scenery and decoration. Neither NBC nor ABC used a set decorator. CBS was the only network employing and assigning a set decorator to their shows. Like a summer stock theater, scenery was designed, supervised, and decorated by the set designer or art director. Assistant art directors were employed after production became more involved, with time management determining additional support positions. In early television, like the theater, the designer was expected to cover everything in his or her design area.
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