The Full Story Of CBS Color Studio 72, New York https://eyesofageneration.com/cbs-color-studio-72/ At this link is the 27 page CBS publication presented at the 1955 NAB Convention. This was the first and only color facility CBS had on the east coast until The Ed Sullivan Theater (Studio 50) came on line with Norelco color on October […]
The Fearless Camera Pedestal May 23, 1949 Ray Wilcox and Bruce Dalton submitted their patent application for television’s second ever camera pedestal, but the first to use the now standard center steering ring. The patent was assigned to their employer, the Fearless Camera Company in Culver City, CA. The up and down action for the […]
May 9, 1946…”Hour Glass”…Television’s First Variety Show Debuts Not only was this network TV’s first variety show, it was TV’s first hour long program as well, with the exception of two week night boxing matches WNBT carried live. All but the second photo, which shows us “Hour Glass” rehearsing with the NBC made cameras in […]
Mystery Solved #1 The First Ikegami Studio Camera Without a doubt, this is the first professional studio camera from Ikegami. The camera with the big box zoom lens is the Ikegami TK 301A. I had searched and searched for a photo, but all I could find was a tiny thumbnail size. When I blew it […]
Do me a favour ! Back to the Future !
Bruce Almighty was another one.
And we came very close to losing it, after the 2008 fire.
A lot of music history was lost in that fire with the loss of most of the archived masters of Universal Music Group.
They used the steps in Refugee from the Empire, and I recall at least one old Buck Rogers TV episode that used it as well. I think it was a second season episode.
Spent many hours on that backlot street for various sit-com scenes. I recall that we had to stop shooting when the tour tram came through. The tour was a priority.
I have to get those back to you
UMG has never really officially said what was lost, but it is known that a lot of A&M masters were lost, as was a lot of old Decca tapes and 78RPM stampers.
I knew there were video archives lost. I read somewhere that much of it was backed up at another location. Don’t know if that’s true though. I didn’t know about the music archives. This is a map of the damaged area.