Be Here Tomorrow! I Just Got Back…
I’m very tired, but wanted you to know I’ll have some great pictures in the morning of ‘The Killing Of Kennedy’ docudrama that I, and these 3 cameras were a part of this morning at New Millennium Studios in Richmond VA.
What does the Orson Wells classic radio drama “War Of The Worlds” have in common with Dr Peter Goldmark’s mechanical color tests? The answer is CBS Radio Studio 1 at their first headquarters building, 485 Madison Avenue. That was where Wells and company preformed their weekly “Mercury Theater of The Air”. Around the start of […]
September 30, 1939…First Televised Football Game Broadcast By NBC All the details are below in my previous post on this occasion. Hope your teams win this weekend! -Bobby Ellerbee College Football Starts This Week…Here’s The First TV Game The first ever telecast of a football game was done from Triborough Stadium in Randall’s Island NY, […]
Happy 90th Birthday! Tony Bennett…Born August 3, 1926 Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born in Astoria, Queens, New York 90 years ago today. In a nutshell, here’s how Mr. Bennett’s career began. In 1949, Pearl Bailey, who had seen him in a club, asked him to open for her in Greenwich Village. She had invited Bob […]
’60 Minutes’…On The Set With so much green screen around, it was a nice surprise to find the ’60 Minutes’ set dressed in blue. When CBS started buying Norelco PC60s by the dozens in 1965, a medium blue was the prefered chroma key background then, but by around 1970 green began to take over as […]
Looks really nice. very classic setup
Wow! New Millennium Studios is still in operation? That’s great. That’s in my hometown (Petersburg, VA.) Beautiful set!
Mondo cool Bobby.
I bet that will be a great experience for all!
Can’t wait to see the pics!
commends the producers for having Bobby in to supply the authentic cameras for 1962!