ULTRA RARE! 1956 ‘Peter Pan’ Promo
As we just read in this morning’s first story, the first television production of ‘Peter Pan’ was March 7, 1955. On January 9, 1956, NBC Brooklyn did it again…live and in color. Here is a promo for the second broadcast that fortunately was captured from inside a kinescope of the January 6, 1956 ‘Ernie Kovacs Show’. Thanks to Ben Model for the capture and to Randy West for bringing this to my attention. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
This is the promo that aired on NBC in January 1956 for “Peter Pan” starring Mary Martin. Sourced from a kinescope of “The Ernie Kovacs Show” from Jan 6, 1956
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Amazing, no kinescope clips in the promo of the first broadcast; just stills; produced to be what we would now call motion graphics.
Correct me if I’m wrong….. Wasn’t Mary Martin the mother of Larry Hagman? (J.R. from Dallas)?
Yes she was Russ.
Mary Martin also starred on Broadway in the original cast of South Pacific.
So, is that “timecode” in the lower left corner something that was part of the original kinescope? How and why was it generated and inserted?
That timecode would have been inserted later when the kinnie was transferred to tape. This is probably a screener copy. The master tape wouldn’t have the BITC (burnt-in timecode).