Lawrence Welk Trades Places With The Cameraman…1978
The show was an ABC heavyweight from ’55 till ’71 when it was canceled, but started on a syndicated basis the next year. The 77-79 seasons were shot at CBS Television City. Here’s Lawrence behind a Norelco PC60 with it’s “dual exhausts”. There was a video of this but now it’s gone.
January 25, 1915…The First Transcontinental Phone Call Made 100 years ago today, Alexander Graham Bell (shown below) in New York placed a call to his long time assistant, Thomas Watson in San Francisco at 4 PM Eastern time. The second transcontinental call to San Francisco was made at 4:30 over an even greater distance from […]
January 11, 1958…’Sea Hunt’ Debuts On 100 Stations In Syndication Filming began September 23, 1958 and ended exactly four years later on September 23, 1961. The series was created and produced by Ivan Tors and ZIV Television. Initially, the under water scenes were shot in Southen California, but soon moved to South Florida and The […]
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your day, but take a close look at that turkey…it may be an old friend. All my best to you and your family. Bobby Ellerbee Happy Thanksgiving from Nathan Love & NBC. Client: NBC Artworks Animation Studio: Nathan Love Director: Nathan Love Creative Director: Joe Burrascano Art Dir… Source
Color Comes To Atlanta…1965 This is five of the six Norelco PC60s that arrived at WAGA (then CBS) in late 1966 which replaced their Marconi Mark IVs. WSB (then NBC) was first with local color in 65 and had the RCA TK42s, but by 69, they too went to the Norelcos. Before color, WSB had […]
PC-60 camera
… why did some Norelcos have dual and others single cable hookups ?
That’s delightful, although I was a small boy when the Welk show was in production and I didn’t think it was “cool” enough for me, but now, I love it.
Not to express an opinion, but simply an question –
Wouldn’t something like this require a union negotiation? I mean, talent handling a camera (especially in what I’m sure was a ‘scripted unscripted’ moment) was most unusual.