Monkeying Around With The Cameras…April 9, 1961
Here’s great short clip of Zippy The Chimp on Ed Sullivan’s stage giving the cameramen a moving target and us, some great shots of the RCA TK11s. At least one has a Zoomar lens and at the end, a HF TD 1 pedestal gets a new use. Enjoy and share!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW5gP25NBlE
http://goo.gl/n8f54 – Zippy The Chimp roller skating on the Ed Sullivan Show on April 9th, 1961.
“The Kraft Television Theater”…TV’s First Anthology Series This was the earliest and, at the time, the most famous of television’s live dramatic anthologies, and helped define the “golden age” of television. The hour-long series, sponsored by Kraft Foods, premiered on Wednesday, May 7th, 1947 on NBC. It would run continuously, with no summer breaks, for […]
CLASSIC! Final Days Of ‘Tonight’ With Johnny Carson This is a great behind the scenes look at the show, shot in the final days of production with Johnny and Ed as hosts. The year is 1992 and the cameras are RCA TK47s. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDcQkpb9sE A Behind the Scenes Look at Production of The Tonight Show […]
Be sure to read the text uner the photos for some interesting details on the production process, and the location of the show over time. Above, Walter at his Graybar Building desk with staff in the fishbowl office watching the broadcast. The fishbowl office was in the same place when the show moved to the […]
‘The Match Game’, NBC Studio 8H…Photo 1 of 5 This is the debut of an exclusive series of photos which have never been seen before. The TK41 on the left was operated by Bob Batche (this was his usual position), but on this day in December of 1968, he had his “other” camera with him. […]
I believe this was Zippy with my grandfather
thinks the entire soundtrack for this appearance was replaced for the home video release. The music isn’t the ‘live’ Ray Bloch orchestration and the applause is definitely canned. The reason? To save royalty payments. Same reason applies to the “Best of Sullivan” theme song, a bland replacement for the aired version (based on a Broadway tune, as I recall).