Look Familiar? I Thought So…You Were Not Alone!
In reviewing the comments from yesterday’s story on Rosie, I noticed some conversations about drawing pictures of cameras and studios as kids, so…I thought we’d take a trip down memory lane. As it turns out, a lot of us that went into the field did this and here are over two dozen works of art from around the country. Enjoy and share! Oh, and add your pix too if you can find them! -Bobby Ellerbee
CBS Studio 54…Inside Liederkrantz Hall, 1960 Although Studio 54 is the larger of the two second floor studios, it only hosts three cameras instead of the four in Studio 53. Quite a few of the CBS daytime dramas came from Liederkrantz Hall which was well suited for this kind of daily activity. The most well […]
A Rare Color Photo of CBS Television City Studio 33 Perhaps the most famous of the TVC studios is 33. This is the only one left that has the side wings and the built in theater seating. Here is a shot from behind the lighting directors console from around 1953. As mentioned in the post […]
Two True Rarities… Rarity One…the striped banding on the RCA TK11/31s. This was fairly common on the TK10/30 at CBS and this was actually a quick grey scale adjustment for cameras. The TK11/31 handle in front of the grey bars diluted their purpose, so they quit using the bars on the TK11/31 cameras soon after […]
Director Joseph Cates…The Man Who Introduced Ralph To Norton A year or so back, I was fortunate meet actor Kevin Kline, and of all things, we talked mostly about television history…and you will not believe his connection to a True Pioneer! In case you had forgotten, Kevin is married to actress Phoebe Cates, whose father […]
Much more artistic and accurate than my early drawings, but I remember a similar passion beginning in the third grade.
I used to do this, too.
So did I !!!
Wow. How enjoyable to see. I have 3 or 4 TV production drawings I sketched in the 1960s, but don’t know how to upload them. 🙁
All Are Great Drawings!
Love this! I did it, too. But I didn’t have the drawing talent displayed here.
How cool is that?? Yep I was one of those that made a comment like that! I was memorized by those cameras. When I appeared on the Popeye Playhouse on WTVT in Tampa as a kid, I was more fascinated with the cameras than with the host, ha ha.
I remember making clay models of cameras, mic booms and other studio equipment when I was a kid, but they certainly weren’t as well done as these drawings.
Can the artist please tag themselves and the age they were when drawing?
I am not nor was I ever an artist. Even though I’d always wanted to be in TV from a very young age, I never had the desire to draw TV cameras or studios like these.
I did the same thing when I was a teenager, wish I still had the drawings
Truck from Itapoan TV in the 60s. (Salvador city, Bahia state, Brazil):
Truck from Piratini TV in the 60s. (Porto Alegre city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil):
I most certainly did, too.