‘The Pontiac Star Parade’ 1959
Here’s Gene Kelly in the dress rehearsal at NBC Burbank. Below you can see a clip from the show that gives you a good look at one of the huge studios and some pretty fancy crane camera work at the start. The cameras were RCA TK41s.
A Look Inside ‘Sunday Morning’, And CBS Studio 45 This is a story I posted a few days after my visit to The CBS Broadcast Center in early May. I don’t know if this “share” will include the great comments and add on’s from the original, so I’m pasting in the link just in case. […]
The First Order For Color Equipment… Before any other local station, WBAP-TV (now KXAS or NBC5) in Dallas/Ft. Worth optimistically placed an order in the fall of 1949 for RCA color television equipment, to be delivered when ready. Although their order was placed first, WKY in Oklahoma City actually became the first non NBC O&O […]
Tour Of Duty…Remembering Roy Holm, NBC Burbank Last week when the ‘Elvis’ comeback special story ran here, Roy Holm was pictured in that photo array. Our friend David Crosthwait posted more pictures of Roy that I am sharing here. He was one of NBC’s top cameramen and a multiple EMMY winner. More on the photos. […]
The Little Theater: 240 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan Now known as The Helen Hayes Theater, this was formerly the Little Theater, New York Times Hall and Winthrop Ames Theater. It was built with 597 seats, but reconfigured for TV, seating was reduced to 300. CBS used the theater as a radio studio for […]
That Pontiac Star Parade excerpt I uploaded on my oldtvhistory channel came from NBC’s 50th Anniversary special from 1976, I got a DVD copy of it from a guy who recorded it back then on Betamax, there’s quite a number of rare 50s/60s colour TV excerpts in the special 🙂 . I wish I could somehow get a hold of the whole show, would be good to see it in its entirety 🙂
…here’s what amazes me ! ..the exceptional talent of Gene Kelly, AND his guests ! ..the wonderful, extremely tight sounding orchestra ! ..and the images done by a 1950’s era color camera ! ! ! ..thanks for posting this ! ! ..also, love seeing the color NBC chimes logo on the 41 ! !
It looks like Studio 2 to me.
It is either studio 2 or 3. DD is likely right, given the elephant doors artwork.