The Rose Parade…A Uniquely American Tradition And Color Spectacular
First, if you are working Times Square, Bowl Games or other holiday shows, please remember to send us some pictures via a Facebook message to me or send them to edition4@comcast.net.
I just heard from our friend Roger Crawford, senior video for ESPN/ABC. He and the other network mobile units are at Orange Grove and Colorado in Pasadena. Roger is going to get us some pictures of one of the most amazing parades in the world and how it’s covered. Of course the parade itself is January 1 but we hope to see some rehearsal and set up pix tomorrow.
Below, we see two color shots from 1961 and 1959. The original NBC Color mobile units did their first ever broadcast from here January 1, 1954 and we see them here in a Los Angeles publicity shot. The final photo is a screen shot taken in 1940 when Don Lee’s W6XAO did the first ever television broadcast to some 200 set owners in LA. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
“Tomorrow” (as I write this) is December 31st. Isn’t the Rose Bowl Parade on Thursday, January 1st?
Nearly sixty years ago my dad went to the local RCA dealer and got a color TV to try out over New Years. We watched the parade and then had it returned as we couldn’t afford it.
Looks like the camera operator is using a sweatshirt as a hood to see his screen.
Set up may in fact start today.
Do the Firesign Theatre folks still do an audio commentary as the parade goes along?
Too bad the ABC cameras are looking into the sun.
Did 23 parades on camera in various camera positions for NBC….everybody froze our butts off and had the sun in our faces at some point !! Had to be at the parade site at 3am…kind of a pain, but it was always fun !
Rose Bowl parade 1961 covered by NBC