The floor director may be Harry Katzman who worked this show for a long time. For much more, take a look at this link!
https://eyesofageneration.com/1953-televising-todays-news/
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You Didn’t Think I Would Come Home Without These Did You? Since my first glimpse of an RCA TK44 mounted on the Chapman Electra crane on SNL back in 1975, I have wanted to sit in “the bucket”. I finally have and I’m a happy man! For the full story on the Electra and 8H, […]
The Very First “Made For Television” Cartoon…’Crusader Rabbit’ The concept of an animated series made for television came from animator Alex Anderson, who worked for Terrytoons Studios. Terrytoons turned down Anderson’s proposed series, preferring to remain in theatrical film animation, which opened the door for him to team up with Jay Ward. The main difference […]
The Original Beany & Cecil On the left is the voice of Beany, Daws Butler…on the right is the voice of Cecil, Stan Freberg. This photo was taken April 4, 1950 on the set at KTLA. More on the next post. Source
March 10, 1933…2 Earth Shaking Events In 1 Day At W6XAO Los Angeles No one at Don Lee’s Los Angeles TV station W6XAO had any idea that they would make television history twice in one day, but 84 years ago today…they did! Although there were less than 100 TV sets in all of Los Angeles, […]
NY Times ad dated Wednesday 2/16/49. Notice that the sponsor is not mentioned.
I don’t think the stage manager is Harry Katzman. Harry was on the technical side of things. It might be Jim O’Gorman who spent many years after this in Sports in the announce booth with Curt Gowdy.
He took a licking and kept right on ticking.
I think the Caravan name came from the sponsor, Camel cigarettes. Camel-Caravan. Get it?
Where’s the Timex???