Video Rarity #1…Jerry Lewis Hosts ‘Tonight’ With TK41 Shot This is doubly rare! First, you almost never saw the TK41s on the ‘Tonight’ show with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson, but at the 3:00 minute mark, we do! Announcer and Paar sidekick Hugh Downs is off camera in Studio 6B, but to make a point […]
1936 & 2016…Convention Coverage Eerily Similar For NBC & CBS Believe it or not, the Republicans held their convention in Cleveland in mid June of 1936, and the Democrats held theirs in Philadelphia in late July. Sound familiar? http://fadedsignals.com/post/147634247368/from-1936-the-nbc-radio-facilities-at-the In Cleveland, Alf Landon was the GOP candidate selected, and Franklin Roosevelt was the democrats choice […]
“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In”…Three Backstories Rolled Into One (1) Fun (2) Editing on film and videotape (3) The Editor, Art “Jump Cut” Schneider There is not a better way to illustrate how “Laugh In” was done than to start with this embedded blooper reel, which will be fun and instructive at the same time. […]
Varotal Mark I Field Zoom Many of us are familiar with the Varotal Mark III lenses, but here is the Mark I mounted on a Marconi Mark II camera in 1953. Varotal is a product of Rank Taylor Hobson. Source
Printing looks so small