TeleTales #9…Remember This?
This is one of several posters MAD artist Jack Davis did for Ampex. These were usually given out at NAB conventions in the early 70s. I have been asked many times if there are hi res versions, but not that I can find. Anyone have better images? Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
Merv Griffin Gets A Ride On A Marconi Mark IV This fun clip is from November 8, 1965. This was the first year of Merv’s Group W, syndicated daytime show and was done at The Little Theater at 240 West 44th Street in New York. This is now known as The Helen Hayes Theater. In […]
Need A Lift Dinah? In a 1952 episode of the twice weekly, 15 minute ‘Dinah Shore Show’, our star hitches a ride on a Panoram dolly with an extra sideboard. In ’56, Shore began hosting a monthly series of one-hour full-color spectaculars as part of NBC’s ‘The Chevy Show’ series. These proved so popular that […]
TREASURE!!! Must See! Jerry Lewis…The Cameraman June 26, 1956, The Today Show is live at the Sands Hotel’s 500 Club in Atlantic City. Jerry Lewis takes over a TK30 at around the 44:30 mark as Dean Martin sings. Although his camera work is clownish, don’t be fooled…he knows exactly what to do. Notice the RCA […]
Marilyn Monroe….’Person To Person’ April 8, 1955 http://youtu.be/L05TYBXwU3A?t=4m12s At the clip above, we start with photographer Milton Green walking through the living room we see in the photos. While he’s walking toward the kitchen where Marilyn is waiting, he is talking live with Edward R. Murrow via the new Shur “Vagabond” wireless microphone. The Vagabond […]
Kind of off topic, but this reminded me. A friend of mine went to work for Ampex as a field tech. He was visiting a startion in Northern California and saw a patch panel. the label above it read. “Vertical interval patch panel. Make all patches during the vertical interval.” Just wanted to share this.
Didn’t these appear in Broadcast Engineering magazine as well?
My favorite……The hippo jumping thru a hoop.
Jack Davis did brilliant work for Mad Magazine!