‘The Muppet Show’…Horizontal Split Screen Open
Who knew? Until I saw this photo and compared it to a Season 4 opening montage, I never knew it was done in layers of horizontal image editing. The video starts at the intro. Enjoy and share.
http://youtu.be/fp05wtcvDMk?t=38s
Early Marconi Color Testing I suspect this experimental color camera is from around 1954. It is the predecessor to Marconi’s BD 848 which appeared around 1957 and was built along the lines of the RCA TK41. Around 1947 Marconi entered an agreement with RCA to build modified versions of the TK 30 which became the […]
Bill Cullen’s & Goodson -Todman’s First Television Show… ‘Winner Take All’ began on CBS Radio on June 3, 1946. Original emcee Ward Wilson stepped down after just three months at the helm, and announcer Bill Cullen stepped in as a temporary host on September 9. Cullen’s work on the show stunned executives, who made his […]
November 10, 1938…First Ever Performance, “God Bless America” Irving Berlin had originally written the song in 1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, but decided that it did not fit in a USO type revue called ‘Yip Yip Yaphank’, so he set it aside. In 1938, with the […]
The First Camera Dolly, 1936 In the patent application, this is referred to as a “camera carriage” and as you can see, it has only three wheels. Designed by Victor Raby and made by Studio Equipment Company, these are now rare items and only a couple of these are still around. One of the survivors […]
Studio D, ATV Elstree studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England . Occupied by BBC TV since 1984. Photo taken from the permanent audience area, the Muppet workshop was underneath the audience seating at studio floor level.
Anybody recognise the Muppeteers? I reckon Richard Hunt is one of them. Usually the crew included Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, and Jerry Nelson, at least during the first series in 1976.
It was the only way we could do it then!
I do and don’t want to see this. Like pulling back the curtain on the wizard
So shot in England, probably with Marconi cameras in 625 line PAL, that is why it can look SOO darn good!
I always assumed it was a process shot simply because the on-screen arrangement of each level doesn’t leave any space for the puppeteers.
Agree with Louis that i do and don’t want to see how they did it, something that I loved to watch in my childhood 🙂