‘All In The Family’…A Rare Shot On The Set
Oddly, there are very few pictures of this show in production and this is one I just recently found. I think this is from the first or second season which came from CBS Television City Studio 31. Starting with season three, the show began to alternate between studios 31 and 41. The cameras are early Norelco PC60s as you can tell by the original zoom servo cable on the side of the camera on the left, and the double cables on the other. Enjoy and share!
Sunday, November 7, 1954…’Face The Nation’ Debuts, CBS Wait till you see this video of the first ever presentation of ‘Face The Nation’! The first thing you see is a closeup of a camera’s lens turret with a surrounding that is rather confusing…until the shot widens out. Only then do we see that the camera […]
‘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 Source
October 31, 1965…’The Ed Sullivan Show’ Goes Color Although I can’t locate a clip of the debut color show from CBS Studio 50, I have the next best thing…a clip from a week later on November 7, 1965. Starting in the late 50’s, Sullivan had done color shows from time to time, but they were […]
History’s First Marriage Of Recorded Sight And Sound…Circa 1894 From the inception of motion pictures, various inventors attempted to unite sight and sound through “talking” motion pictures. The Edison Company is known to have experimented with this as early as the fall of 1894 under the supervision of W. K. L. Dickson with a film […]
I listened to an interview of a CBS cameraman on the Emmy Legends website. He mentioned that Norman Lear always wanted tight close ups.
Camera pedestals sure have come along way!
Couldn’t help noticing the strange camera position
…maybe it was a rehearsal.
This was one of the greatest shows of its time and mine and my dad’s favorite !!!! Thank you for posting this iconic shot of our one of our favorite shows .
How well I remember the era…..
Got to work that show in 1976 when it shot at Metromedia.
Crazy show but I liked it.
… those were the days! 😉
What a fantastic shot! Thank you for sharing!
Saw it in production when @ Metromedia Square in the late 1970s.
Boom in the shot.
Looks like from the 1st season…given the color Sally’s hair.
Are they EV-643’s? Dynamic shotguns!!
Great picture! Wow, Sid Caesar workin the camera…
Serge, Our family had a screen larger than that. Norman Lear liked to see the actor’s faces. That’s also why camera four is so deep into the set.
Amazing..thankyou for sharing…
I understand that CBS electronically upgraded their PC-60s to PC-70s using a kit provided by Norelco, though the dual cables and rear tally lights remained. Also, CBS developed enhancements to the PC-60/PC-70 that it sold through its CBS Laboratories division.
Where’s Hector ?
My boss was the Production Designer: Don Roberts. Many days on that set. Still have the original wall paper!
I think those peds are in use at 57th street.
It’s hard to believe that this great set is not in a museum even though it survives.