Format and Effects
The special effect to represent time travel was a simple dissolve shot, set among flashing lights, blinking oscilloscopes and innumerable levers and knobs.
Captain Z-Ro was one of the first shows to be shot on videotape. (Doubtful as video tape wasn't introduced until 1956 and not commonly used by local stations until the early 1960s.) Early episodes were kinescope recordings (film shot off a TV monitor). Later shows for syndication were shot directly to 16mm film at W.A. Palmer Film. Later episodes were shot on film, as the show moved from a 15 minute format on local station KRON in San Francisco to a 30 minute nationally syndicated format.
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