Picture Parade #6…76 Trombones And A Cameraman!
Now you know the secret. Back in the early days of portable cameras, this is how they hid the cameraman in the big parades. This Macy’s shot reminds me that The Rose Parade is just a few days away. If any of you are working that, bowl game or Times Square, send us your rehearsal and facilities check pictures. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
‘$64,000 Question’, 1st Anniversary Show, June 7, 1956 The $64,000 Question premiered June 7, 1955 on CBS-TV, sponsored by cosmetics maker Revlon and originating from the start live from CBS-TV Studio 52 in New York (later the disco-theater Studio 54). The first contestant on the show was Thelma Farrell Bennett, a housewife from Trenton, New […]
Happy Trails & Many Thanks To Bill Plante…. CBS News celebrates career of Bill Plante, retiring after 52 years Plante covered many major stories of the past half century, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Vietnam War Source
Deep Inside The Ed Sullivan Theater, Part 1 On the left, Jackie Gleason’s favorite door! This door is located in the basement and on the other side of it is a now capped set of stairs, but in Gleason’s time, the stairs let to The Cordial Bar. The Cordial was located inside the 13 story […]
More Pictures From NBC 3H…Granddaddy Of Them All On the left is a look inside the 3H control room in the late 1930s which was on the fourth floor level, but accessible from the studio. In the middle, television’s first ever opera was presented from 3H on March 10, 1940, as the Metropolitan Opera Company […]
That’s Al Camoin
I can’t imagine how heavy all that equipment is. It looks painful!
It appears that he’s attempting to adjust the pointing direction of a microwave transmitting antenna, which can be seen behind and above his head.
This is how they all broke their backs too. They had Dick run Round backwards on Sha Na Na with one of these monsters….
Can you hear his vertebrae creaking?
Russell
Are you sure it’s Al ?
I have no doubt
I never knew him as a “MINI” Op
Worked on Pageants and the Tonys with Al.
When Clark Jones was directing….
PCP 90 with Back Pack
I ran one once under a Basketball Backboard
The pack we kept in a little Red Wagon
TKP 45 no BackPack
Not fun ….
… giggle… where is the clip?… LOL
Dennis Degan……. Dennis, have you ever been on detail wearing full back pack and walking and jogging 5 miles? The PC 90 was not that heavy but was cumbersome.