In Honor Of Baseball’s Opening Day!
The classic, “Who’s On First” routine from Abbot & Costello.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=airT-m9LcoY
a funny monolog between Abbot And costello abou abbots baseball team.
September 15, 1938…NBC Debuts TV’s First Live Remote Show On December 12, 1937, the world’s first electronic television remote units were delivered by RCA to NBC in New York City. The dual vehicle system, consisting two, 26 foot buses included one for production and one for transmission. The production bus provided two portable single-lens Iconoscope […]
Via Kinescope…A Trip Back To April 1956 With Milton Berle Above, we go to the live “Milton Berle Show”, from the USS Hancock in San Diego. Here’s the whole show with Elvis Presley debting “Blue Suede Shoes”, Esther Williams, Harry James and Buddy Rich filling out the bill, with Arnold Stang joining Milton for bit. […]
TeleTales #47…You’ve Come A Long Way Baby! Given all of the Super Bowl coverage, I thought a look back at 1960 state of the art mobile production was in order. This is the new RCA twin truck unit recently purchased by Los Angeles based Glenn-Armistead Productions. The production truck (bottom) carried 4 RCA TK11/31 black […]
Fascinating Photo 1939, NBC presents “Mamba’s Daughters” staring Ethel Waters, seen here in the head scarf. The play is running on Broadway and is similar to the movie ‘The Help’, which is pretty interesting television fare for the time. The cameras are Iconoscopes and the cameramen are ‘interesting’. On the left, one is wearing a […]
Can’t believe it is 75 years since they performed it on the Kate Smith Hour…
Who? Yes. What?…