Happy Trails & Many Thanks To Bill Plante….
CBS News celebrates career of Bill Plante, retiring after 52 years
Plante covered many major stories of the past half century, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Vietnam War
This Rare Color Photo Reveals More Than You Know! There are two other photos like this, but this is the only color version. Each description of these similar images eludes to a “studio tour”, and show 1930 era visitors being shot by an RCA field camera and seeing themselves in a monitor. These photos had […]
Directing ‘The Good Wife’…Another Great DGA Article From The Director’s Guild Of America’s “DGA Quarterly” Magazine here is Ann Farmer’s behind the scenes look at one of the best dramatic shows on television. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee Spring 2013 Order in the Court Executive producer-director Brooke Kennedy and her team of directors smoothly manage […]
‘Howdy Doody Show’…The Unforgettable Clarabell Goodbye Until those awful days in Dallas in 1963, September 24, 1960 was television’s most memorable moment…at least for us kids who watched ‘Howdy Doody’ every Saturday morning. The show debuted with Iconoscope cameras December 27, 1947 but by early April new RCA TK30 Image Orthicon cameras were in 3H. […]
TeleTales #93…You Mean It Wasn’t A Real Hotel? Did you know that “Petticoat Junction”, created by Paul Henning, was based on the stories told him by his wife Ruth, who had spent summers at a small hotel located near the train station in Eldon, Missouri? Speaking of Missouri, that’s where Henning was raised, and on […]
Grew up with him on the news. Thank you, Bill Plante.
Bill is featured doing one of the first documented “mic drops” in the early ’80s “Tapes of Wrath” … great stuff.
Little know MKE media trivia…Bill Plante stared as, of all things, a weatherman on WISN-TV in Milwaukee!