This is so cool! I actually used to live right down the street to a Yale building which was originally supposed to be the house for the Addams' Family but Yale denied them access to it in its entirety! The house looks EXACTLY like the painting! Even spookier in person! :)
That's the Betts House at Yale Unuversity, a 21,000 square foot mansion built in 1868. Yale wanted to demolish the building in the 1990s but preservationists and students stopped that. The house was extensively renovated in 2002 and now houses a globalization center.
Thank you for sharing that! I love learning the history! Absolutely wonderful that they were able to preserve the house and make it useful as well. Kind of sad they didn't let them have access to it though.... for the Addams family show. That would have been awesome!
Thank you for sharing! I love learning about these things. Have to say I'm disappointed they didn't get to use that house. I think that would have been fabulous!
Remember when they spoofed The Addams Family on The Flintstones? I loved it. One of my favorite storylines. Good job Rick! Love your entertaining informational vids. 💜
Great job dude! I love the Addam’s Family. My ex-wife didn’t get it. But I had a beautiful girlfriend who loved the Addams as much as I do. She was making a Morticia dress as I had a Gómez suit tailored. Unfortunately, she passed away suddenly in Sept. 2014 before we could reveal our costumes. She’s still with me. Some may call it a haunting or mental problem but she’s still with me. We loved the way the Addams didn’t judge or hurt people just because they had different views. We loved the passion between bobola and querida. Most would lament a passing but I don’t because I had that love. Unconditional love is really something to behold. I’m fortunate. And I’ll see her again soon enough. Thanks for the great video.
You briefly covered the Addams' house in another video, but thanks for going into more details in this fine video. All I can add to the comments below, is it's a shame that some Addams Family fan group didn't try to save the house that was the basis for the one in the TV series. They could have drummed up the money somehow and had the house moved to another location, where it would have been a popular tourist attraction. But, that opportunity is long gone. As always, as you say, Stay Positive and Be Hopeful!
Thank you for posting this! This is great.... I never knew that about the Addams family house! I wish it had been real though! Lol. I always wanted to see it ....hoping it was a real house!
For the first 10 seconds of your video, you show a portrait of the Addams family house, that isn't the house on Adams Blvd, or the Matte painting that was created based on that house. This one appears to be more weathered and run down, with an overgrown lawn. That picture of the house used in the opening credits, appears to be drawn by Charles Addams, who was involved in the pre-production of the series. This has always had me wondering. Did Charles Addams use the photograph to create a version of the Adams Blvd house more like the house that his characters resided in with the New Yorker Cartoons, or (if Charles Addams did the run down version) did he base the drawing on the Matte painting? I suspect Charles Addams may have done the original redesign of the house, which is more in the Mansard Roof style of the New Yorker cartoons, as opposed to the Queen Anne style of the house filmed in the pilot. Many of the houses that Addams liked to draw, including the house he drew for the opening credits of the film "The Old Dark House" were Mansard Roof houses, and the Matte Painting of the house seems to be more of a well maintained version of that house more in keeping with the rich eccentrics that the television family were known for being, then the drawing of the house at the beginning of the video.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 Ittaliante is just one of many Victorian styles, and was in fashion at about the same time Mansard Roof homes were popular during the Victorian period. The original house used in the Pilot was a Queen Anne house built in the 1880s. However, the style of Building Charles Addams typically drew for his family in the New Yorker was clearly Mansard roof, or Second Empire, so a restyle was given the building, where it had the flat roof, with sloping sides, and dormer windows, so it could be more like the home in the New Yorker.
To me, it looks like a house is modeled after a funeral parlor, with that front entrance with the roof over the top, and it looks like you can drive a car underneath of it.
I thought it was fairly obvious that it was a painting. What I didn't realize was that so much of it was real! And I don't know why they bothered. There are real, spookier houses all over the place.
Great vlog today Rick! It's unfortunate that they tore the original house down. I think the painting of the Addams Family house is better than the original! It would be great to see a house built to resemble it! Okay HGTV there's another project for a new show!
You can buy a scale model of this House i've got a bunch of them there's four ghosts inside the mansion that actually move around they're real cool kit it's ho gauge go to eBay and just puncheon Addams family haunted house model kit
That house always looked like an obvious painting. I didn't think they were trying to make it look "real." I figured they were trying to make it look like the original house from the Addams Family comic. But then again, I never watched an episode. I was a Munsters fan. (Along those same lines I never watched a "Bewitched" episode either, but loved Jeannie.)
Thanks Rick. Very interesting that techniques used in the 1920's were still being used in the 1960's. Do you know if similar matte techniques were used on exterior shots on the Munsters?
Similar yes, to the title credits. However the Munsters house was an exterior facade and no matte painting...pretty cool! All real, at least just the front facade. No rear to the home or interiors which were shot in an interior sound stage
On the New Addams Family set they had a miniature of the house for exteriors. I believe someone told me it had come up from California, and it looked like it had seen better days, being kind of bent and dinged. But a little lighting and the right focus enabled it to pass for a real house. Any idea where that might have originated?
When we are watching the movie the house on the inside Is completely different than they showed outside cuz no one really knows what it looks like cuz it's made up. Lol 😅😂
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Even as a kid when this originally aired I could tell I was actually watching a classy show.
This is so cool! I actually used to live right down the street to a Yale building which was originally supposed to be the house for the Addams' Family but Yale denied them access to it in its entirety! The house looks EXACTLY like the painting! Even spookier in person! :)
That's the Betts House at Yale Unuversity, a 21,000 square foot mansion built in 1868. Yale wanted to demolish the building in the 1990s but preservationists and students stopped that. The house was extensively renovated in 2002 and now houses a globalization center.
Thank you for sharing that! I love learning the history! Absolutely wonderful that they were able to preserve the house and make it useful as well. Kind of sad they didn't let them have access to it though.... for the Addams family show. That would have been awesome!
Thank you for sharing! I love learning about these things. Have to say I'm disappointed they didn't get to use that house. I think that would have been fabulous!
Remember when they spoofed The Addams Family on The Flintstones? I loved it. One of my favorite storylines. Good job Rick! Love your entertaining informational vids. 💜
Great job dude! I love the Addam’s Family. My ex-wife didn’t get it. But I had a beautiful girlfriend who loved the Addams as much as I do. She was making a Morticia dress as I had a Gómez suit tailored. Unfortunately, she passed away suddenly in Sept. 2014 before we could reveal our costumes. She’s still with me. Some may call it a haunting or mental problem but she’s still with me. We loved the way the Addams didn’t judge or hurt people just because they had different views. We loved the passion between bobola and querida. Most would lament a passing but I don’t because I had that love. Unconditional love is really something to behold. I’m fortunate. And I’ll see her again soon enough. Thanks for the great video.
It’s great when a loved one likes a show as much as we do
Thanks, one of my favorites when I was a kid.
Your research is impecable!
Thank you VERY much for such an informed, detailed and educational look at an icon I’ve loved since early childhood! I’ve subscribed immediately.
You briefly covered the Addams' house in another video, but thanks for going into more details in this fine video. All I can add to the comments below, is it's a shame that some Addams Family fan group didn't try to save the house that was the basis for the one in the TV series. They could have drummed up the money somehow and had the house moved to another location, where it would have been a popular tourist attraction. But, that opportunity is long gone.
As always, as you say, Stay Positive and Be Hopeful!
Wow! I love stuff like this! Thanks for posting!
Fantastic! I don’t know how and where you get your info, but keep it coming.
Wow this is interesting! I had no idea! Loved that house! Thanks for the video!
Awesome videos my friend. Very educational and entertaining. Subscribed and liked. Keep this type of videos coming.
Thank you for posting this! This is great.... I never knew that about the Addams family house! I wish it had been real though! Lol. I always wanted to see it ....hoping it was a real house!
Very cool 😎👍
Thanks rick. Informative as always.
As always very good video very entertaining with lots of great facts. Thank you for all your hard work and effort
Outstanding information.
For the first 10 seconds of your video, you show a portrait of the Addams family house, that isn't the house on Adams Blvd, or the Matte painting that was created based on that house. This one appears to be more weathered and run down, with an overgrown lawn. That picture of the house used in the opening credits, appears to be drawn by Charles Addams, who was involved in the pre-production of the series. This has always had me wondering. Did Charles Addams use the photograph to create a version of the Adams Blvd house more like the house that his characters resided in with the New Yorker Cartoons, or (if Charles Addams did the run down version) did he base the drawing on the Matte painting? I suspect Charles Addams may have done the original redesign of the house, which is more in the Mansard Roof style of the New Yorker cartoons, as opposed to the Queen Anne style of the house filmed in the pilot. Many of the houses that Addams liked to draw, including the house he drew for the opening credits of the film "The Old Dark House" were Mansard Roof houses, and the Matte Painting of the house seems to be more of a well maintained version of that house more in keeping with the rich eccentrics that the television family were known for being, then the drawing of the house at the beginning of the video.
More Italianate than Victorian I think.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 Ittaliante is just one of many Victorian styles, and was in fashion at about the same time Mansard Roof homes were popular during the Victorian period. The original house used in the Pilot was a Queen Anne house built in the 1880s. However, the style of Building Charles Addams typically drew for his family in the New Yorker was clearly Mansard roof, or Second Empire, so a restyle was given the building, where it had the flat roof, with sloping sides, and dormer windows, so it could be more like the home in the New Yorker.
@@ottobaron6392 thank you very much for the info!
To me, it looks like a house is modeled after a funeral parlor, with that front entrance with the roof over the top, and it looks like you can drive a car underneath of it.
I did not know that the actual house was in West Adams district in Los Angeles. That’s pretty cool to know.
Speaking of the Addams Family house, Bentley House Minis on You Tube has some videos where they make a doll house based on the house.
So interesting n informative love your work !
Its interesting that they paid so much attention to such details
I love ❤️ these videos and great 👍🏼 speech
Great info as always Rick, Thanks!
Cool! I knew it was a matte painting, but I wasn't aware the same company did work on a lot of other TV shows too.
I thought it was fairly obvious that it was a painting. What I didn't realize was that so much of it was real! And I don't know why they bothered. There are real, spookier houses all over the place.
John Stevenson There are still plenty of these large homes on and near Adams Blvd., and they're beautiful. I believe USC owns a couple of them.
Great vlog today Rick! It's unfortunate that they tore the original house down. I think the painting of the Addams Family house is better than the original! It would be great to see a house built to resemble it! Okay HGTV there's another project for a new show!
Thanks for another interesting video, Rick.
Neat! I never knew it was a painted over house.
I love these videos!
Great details here! Good work!
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You can buy a scale model of this House i've got a bunch of them there's four ghosts inside the mansion that actually move around they're real cool kit it's ho gauge go to eBay and just puncheon Addams family haunted house model kit
Just discovered you. Love your channel.
Awesome! Welcome to the channel, I am so happy you found me. Make sure to browse the channel as you will see so much content for you to enjoy.
@@ricknineg i watched a bunch so far, i love them! Gilligan & munsters mostly so far. Im 52 so i grew up with them. 😄
Cool 😀
Very good. Do some other shows
That house always looked like an obvious painting. I didn't think they were trying to make it look "real." I figured they were trying to make it look like the original house from the Addams Family comic. But then again, I never watched an episode. I was a Munsters fan. (Along those same lines I never watched a "Bewitched" episode either, but loved Jeannie.)
I loved all 4 of those shows.
I love this show. The Munsters was too silly and childish for me.
I loved this show
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The house is a museum
Johnny Petraglia did you watch the video ?? House was torn down.
Very informative! I had never heard of the Anderson Company.
Thanks Rick. Very interesting that techniques used in the 1920's were still being used in the 1960's. Do you know if similar matte techniques were used on exterior shots on the Munsters?
Similar yes, to the title credits. However the Munsters house was an exterior facade and no matte painting...pretty cool! All real, at least just the front facade. No rear to the home or interiors which were shot in an interior sound stage
If you were a heavy set kid back then..kids called you pugsly..cruel as kids can be
I believe there was not a single scene of the show that was shot outside a sound stage.
Rick how do you get all this great information about theses shows,Adams Family ,I love Lucy Etc.?
Google it. It's not hard to find info on old shows
On the New Addams Family set they had a miniature of the house for exteriors. I believe someone told me it had come up from California, and it looked like it had seen better days, being kind of bent and dinged. But a little lighting and the right focus enabled it to pass for a real house.
Any idea where that might have originated?
Ashame it was torn down beautiful home
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Thank you so much
Was not the heart opening for the I Love Lucy Show used in syndication? Did they not have a different opening for the original run?
They did have a different opening...they were cartons of Lucy and Ricky. The syndication heart is what I was referring to :)
@@ricknineg I will be honest I liked the heart better.
Hi Rick that was interesting do you think the Anderson company did opening of ‘family affair’ it looks like their style!?
Do you know if they ever colorized Any episodes of the Addams family
Nine episodes but they have accurately colorized photos which you can find online. Surprisingly most of the house on the inside was pink
the style is from civil war era
Italianate home hayday was between 1840 and 1885 according to sources I read so the civil war occurred in the middle.
When we are watching the movie the house on the inside Is completely different than they showed outside cuz no one really knows what it looks like cuz it's made up. Lol 😅😂
House is University