‘I Love Lucy’
From the set, here is a look at what Lucy, Rickey, Fred and Ethyl saw when they filmed. In the white shirt between the boom and camera, Desi Arnaz visits with the audience before he does the warm up, which he usually did for each show. The third man to the right of the camera in the dark shirt is Director of Photography Karl Freund.
http://www.emmytvlegends.org/news/april-17-1967-fifty-years-ago-today-the-joey-bishop-show-debuted-on-abc Here is the story I wrote for the Archive Of American Television site…home of the Emmy TV Legends video collection and histories. Enjoy and share! It’s quite an interesting story! -Bobby Ellerbee
Welcome To The Ed Norton Apartment… This great color photo was taken in April of 1955 at CBS Studio 50. At the end of May of this year, they would wrap up the hour long live show here and do a season on film (the Classic 39) at Dumont’s Adelphi Theater, but would return after […]
VERY COOL! Patti Page Promo…1958 Patti is behind the camera and on the boom, and more! Enjoy! Source
This is a fantastic, first hand account from Ampex videotape team member Fred Pfost of the entire process of creating the VR-1000… the world’s first commercially viable videotape machine. This is a rare front row seat to one of television’s biggest ever moments and beautifully told by someone who was there. There are details here […]
Who didn’t love Lucy ?
Genius in action.
Interesting. This must have been before Black people lived in America as none to my memory ever appeared.
Cool
Three people on each camera….operator, focus puller and dolly grip.