August 27, 1968…44 Years Ago Today
Dan Rather was manhandled at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Classic footage of a well remembered event.
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Shades Of SNL…On The Set Wardrobe Changes In live television, a lot of things happened just on the other side of the set walls. Here at Television City, a door opens to a quick change space where actors could make a change on the set. More often than not, there was no time to make […]
CBUT Marconi Mark IIs Cover Empire Games, Vancouver The Mark II cameras that were just found were a key element in covering this, and all events of the 1954 Empire Games. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0 On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile at Iffley Road, Oxford. He held his world record for just six […]
October 11, 1975…”NBC Saturday Night” Debuts, LIVE In Studio 8H It would be 8 more months until the show became “Saturday Night Live”, after Howard Cosell’s ABC variety show (which had the same name) folded and give up the name, and the term “not ready for prime time players”. The video below is a double […]
Life With Jackie Gleason…Joyce “Trixie Norton” Randolph Interview This is a tight, well edited 12 minute piece on what life was like on ‘The Jackie Gleason Show’, ‘The Honeymooners’, and more! It starts with how Joyce got the part on Gleason’s Dumont show and goes all the way till the end and it’s fascinating! On […]
…I loved Cronkite’s comeback ! !
There’s a color video of the riots. One of the camera crews had a huge beige shoulder mounted camera with a huge electronics backpack on him. Definitely wouldn’t want to carry that around!