Classic! ‘Sammy Davis Jr. Show’ With TK41s
From NBC Brooklyn, here’s a clip from April 26, 1966 that opens with Sammy in front of a crane mounted RCA TK41. Behind the camera is NBC veteran Frank Gaeta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXjKNl0C-AU
from April 22, 1966. thanks to fromthesidelines and wmbrown6 for the great comments and info on this clip.
Three pages of historic articles on the start of the iconic Chicago station. [pdf-embedder url=”https://staging.eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wgnhistory.pdf”]
Meet “Miss Patience”…Television’s First Stand In (+ Rare Video) This is inside television’s first studio…3H at NBC in New York in May 1936. If you look closely, you can see that “Miss Patience” is actually a mannequin, which is why she was so “patient”. Miss Patience came to be, when Betty Goodwin, television’s first female […]
A First! Here is a photo of Bing Crosby’s first appearance on television. With a shortfall of funds facing the U.S. Olympic team, Hollywood luminaries gathered on the stage of the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles and pleaded, cajoled and implored the television audience watching on both NBC and CBS to phone in their […]
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How many people, like me, thought Christmas had come if we actually got to see a TV camera on a show?
Always enjoyed the credits!
Of course, William B. Williams was the WNEW-AM New York DJ who gave the nickname “Chairman of the Board” to his friend Frank Sinatra, so he was probably tight with all the other members of The Clan (Frank hated the name Rat Pack, btw). Thus, he gets to provide a VO, including a credit for himself, that any NBC staffer could have delivered
Pretty special … Oh those early days of Broadcast TV…
I’m looking at the TK41’s camera cable or is it cables?
Notable credits: Buz Kohan, writer of many memorable music/variety shows and Walter Miller, TD. Wondering if this is Walter C. Miller?