CBS Studio 52…The New Yorker Theater, Part 1
In part 2, you see this theater like never before, but take a look here first. Notice the nice big wings and the long camera ramp…you’ll see Gary Moore walk up it in the second part when we visit a very special edition of ‘I’ve Got A Secret’ which originated here along with a lot of other famous CBS shows. This is on the same block as Ed Sullivan’s Studio 50 and goes all the way from W 54 to 53, just behind Sullivan and if you remember from a couple of days back, is also next to the infamous subway transformer.
I got so excited about this two part look at 52, I forgot to thank our friend Gady Reinhold for these rare 1960 spec sheets. You’ll notice Gary Moore says there were three cameras in the studio, but there were actually 4 according to the sheets.There had to be four, otherwise, we would have never seen him in the control room.
4th camera could had also been used to super the ‘secret’.
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Those steps up to the stage from the audience might have inspired TV City’s Stage 33…?
What I want to know about studio 52: was it ever fully converted to color? The Goodson shows left 52 for 50 which had been converted to color, then Love of Life came to 52 — in color. I wonder if they built full color control room and videotape facilities for Love of Life before they abandoned it altogether. It is not unheard of to park a remote truck next to a studio and use the truck’s control room. They did this at KQED many years ago.