Crane Day At “The Tropicana”
This is a rare sight! Here, on the ‘I Love Lucy’ set, a huge stage crane is getting a special shot at Ricky’s club. Usually, there are three dolly mounted Mitchell cameras on the set, but occasionally Karl Freund (DOP) and Jess Oppenheimer (Producer) would bring in a big crane. Thankfully, it was a large studio.
‘The Mickey Mouse Club’…The Whole Inside Story Since it’s Sunday, and you have some time, here’s piece I have been wanting to repost for a while. I hope you’ll take a look. This is the best retrospective I’ve seen and much of it is told by the Mousketeers themselves. Enjoy and share! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1r-ufjAIfE 56 years […]
The RCA Ultra Portable Camera System Much like our friend Don “Peaches” Langford, who was one of ABC’s pioneers in portable camera work, this is NBC’s Don Mulvaney. You’ll see Mr Mulvaney below in photos from 1956 on, with RCA’s first mobile cameras and with that experience, he became the first to operate the RCA […]
Clarabell #3, Lew Anderson This is the man most of us remember as Clarabell. Lew took over the roll in 1954 and was the one that delivered the famous “Good bye kids” line on the last show in 1960. Although Howdy Doody had been on since 1947, most of us never saw the show till […]
NBC Radio City West…Now And Then In 1938, construction began on NBC’s west coast showplace at Sunset and Vine Streets in Hollywood. A scant twenty six years later, it was torn down and replaced by a Home Savings bank. It’s now a Chase bank. Taking it’s cue from homebase at Radio City in New York, […]
Isn’t thsi the filming of ‘the Indian song’ where Lucy appears at the end with little Ricky attached to her back?
Now that’s a crane.
Actually, Stage One at General Service (now Hollywood Center Studios) is not large at all. It is still in use for cast & crew dinners on TV sitcom shoot days.