On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It was part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Here is one of the many cameras from every network covering the event.
NBC’s Chicago O&O, WNBQ had a big mobile unit and showed up with 6 cameras. NBC New York sent 2 mobile units and 10 cameras and NBC Washington, WRC had 5 on their mobile unit. CBS had 25 cameras there and ABC 20. They were spread all over town.
A Rare Color Photo of CBS Television City Studio 33 Perhaps the most famous of the TVC studios is 33. This is the only one left that has the side wings and the built in theater seating. Here is a shot from behind the lighting directors console from around 1953. As mentioned in the post […]
Follow The Yellow Brick Road… In this rare photo from ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ we see one of the huge Techincolor cameras in action. Production on the bulk of the Technicolor sequences was a long and cumbersome process that ran for over six months, from October 1938 to March 1939. Most of the actors worked […]
November 10, 1969…’Sesame Street’ Debuts on PBS At the link is video of the first episode’s open…it’s the first time we meet Big Bird, Bert and Ernie and the human cast. Kermit, Rowlf and other Muppet characters were not new to the public. Since everyone in the world knows the show, well, almost everyone since […]
Someone’s In The Kitchen With Lucy! Ethyl and Lucy rehearse for a scene in the kitchen. In front of the sound boom, Director of Photography Karl Freund is making adjustments with the crew. The show goes before the motion picture cameras in much the same way it would as a live show in a television […]
Those were not in color?
It just struck me how the coverage of Dr. King’s speech could have been a “dry-run” of sorts for the networks coverage of President Kennedy’s funeral just three months later. I realize they had no way of knowing that President Kennedy was going to die in three months, but I’m sure there were “lessons learned” in post-production meetings that came into play during those infamous “Four Days in November.”
Chicagos truck CG 3 ? We here in Chicago are trying to identify the camerapeople
Kinda re-writing history with this post. Fox Movietone News was the only CAMERA to film Dr. King’s speech from beginning to end. The audio from that film recording, was pressed into LP records. When you watch the networks today, you’ll see that they are depending on the original Fox newsreel footage.
CG3 did not come along until1969 for Nixons inaug parade.
The cameraman here is Hollis Richardson. He went on to become a TD in Chicago. We zoomed in and saw the cigarette in his mouth was the give a way.
“Thanks!” to major league baseball and the NFL for forcing the TV industry to develop the technology and capacity to do large-scale remotes!
Didn’t they have pool cameras?
No Lns back then?