Memory Lane And Coon Skin Caps
About half way into this 6 minute clip, Annette takes us to Disney’s Studio 3 where the Mickey Mouse Club was shot and tells us about the ‘other’ big Disney show on ABC…’Disneyland’. Lots of Davy Crockett memories in the second half too.
1950s
The Full Story Of CBS Color Studio 72, New York https://eyesofageneration.com/cbs-color-studio-72/ At this link is the 27 page CBS publication presented at the 1955 NAB Convention. This was the first and only color facility CBS had on the east coast until The Ed Sullivan Theater (Studio 50) came on line with Norelco color on October […]
Speaking Of Toys…Here Is The First Ever Barbie Commercial This is reported to have aired on ABC on ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’ in 1959. Did you know Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts and was from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin? Me either, but unlike most YouTube posts, this one actually has some […]
Picture Parade #6…76 Trombones And A Cameraman! Now you know the secret. Back in the early days of portable cameras, this is how they hid the cameraman in the big parades. This Macy’s shot reminds me that The Rose Parade is just a few days away. If any of you are working that, bowl game […]
Priceless! Look closely…this is very interesting on two counts. First, this is the hard way to do a mat shot…holding the Lucky Strike transparency still for the camera to shoot through is no easy trick, especially in a crowded football stadium. Second, take a look at the top of the camera door. See the tubes […]
There’s one misstatement in the Annette Funicello segment. “Disneyland” originally aired on Wednesday nights on ABC. It later switched to Friday with a title change: “Walt Disney Presents.” It wasn’t until Disney moved the show to NBC to take advantage of that network’s use of color programming (which neither ABC nor CBS had at the time) as “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” that the show moved to Sundays.
Okay, my childhood memories are far too vivid, especially about Walt Disney stuff, because I loved the Disney shows so much.