Picture Parade 1…Tis The Season To Be Jolly!
Here’s ‘Today’ show host Dave Garroway pushing a camera sled around the ice rink at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. He hosted for nine years, from the show’s start in 1952, till 1961. Thanks to John Schipp for the photo. Enjoy and share. -Bobby Ellerbee
TeleTales #58…Hauling Ass Into History! A Dream Of Jeannie? What does this picture of a donkey in the backseat have to do with television history? Actually, quite a lot. This is a publicity shot for a 1964 movie called “The Brass Bottle” which costarred Barbara Eden. Although she did not play the genie that lived […]
If Walls Could Talk… This is the hallway at NBC Burbank that Johnny Carson walked for his 20 years there. The hallway separates Studio 1 and Studio 3, with 1 being on the left. These days ‘Access Hollywood’ shoots in Studio 1 and I think ‘Days Of Our Lives’ shoots is 3. Thanks to David […]
December 18, 1956…’To Tell The Truth’ Debuts On CBS…Rare Pilot Episode AMAZING! Here is the pilot for the show and you won’t believe the host and panel! The host was Mike Wallace. On the panel…Dick Van Dyke, John Cameron Swayze, Polly Bergen and actress Hildy Park. The show, which debuted 60 years ago today, was […]
WNBT (NBC), December 1941 – Part B Just 2 weeks before this, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and we were at war with Germany, Italy and Japan. Even this meager schedule of programming would basically go to nothing in the next few years as production of home receivers was replaced by radar and radio equipment manufacturing. […]
Peace.
The Today Show is exactly one month older than I am.
The more things change… That’s me as a young grip pushing Jimmy O’Donnell around on the Olympic ice in Lake Placid! The camera was a first generation Sony Hi Def rig. c.1989
How I wish there was a Kinescope of this segment.
Another posed picture with the lens turret half racked to protect the IO.
Looks like the turret is 1/2 racked thus saving the IO.
Garroway was a man whom I grew up admiring and one of the reasons I love broadcasting…
Where’s the monkey
When was the last time you saw talent doing any physical assistance to the crew… in 40 years, I haven’t seen it once.