Like Red Skelton and others, Sullivan was enamored with the way he looked on television. In his early days, he would try different wardrobes, make up and hair dressings to see which ones made him look best (a tall job), but he found that somehow a cameraman on his Studio 50 crew named George Moses made him look best. From that point on, he was the only cameraman allowed to shoot the close ups and introductions Sullivan did. Moses was a permanent fixture on Camera 1 from the ‘Toast Of The Town’ days till the last show on March 28, 1971. I don’t know the whole story, but Moses was also involved with the first US/Europe satellite broadcast via Telstar and was shooting either Walter Cronkite or The Statue Of Liberty in NYC, or President Kennedy in Washington on July 23, 1963.
“Sullivan’s Cameraman” George Moses
This show was a staple at our house until the end.
From my memory of the USA to Europe first Telstar broadcast, that the pool feed came from inside NBC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, with Walter Cronkite joining Chet Huntley in the studio. So my educated guess would be that George Moses was doing camera shots of the Statue of Liberty most likely. JFK was at the State Department auditorium, doing a live press conference when the pool feed dipped in, back in 1962.
Here’s a 1953 photo of Moses with a newly arrived RCA TK11. The act is Rickie Layne and his wooden friend Velvel.
the lighting from the balcony is fascinating!