This 23 minute presentation is a fine historical tutorial on early videotape editing, all the way from the jump cut developed on NBC’s “Laugh In” to the electronic video editing of the 70s and 80s.
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‘Late Night With David Letterman’…NBC Debut, February 1, 1982 In honor of yesterday’s 21st Anniversary of the show’s move to CBS, here is more of Dave’s history…this is how it all started. The embedded clip is the first of three parts that are available online and is the show’s “grand opening”. In part two we […]
Although this episode was the 4th to air in season 1, it was actually the first regular episode ever shot. Posted here is the first of the two page schedule with the second page below in Comments. Rehearsals stared on Thursday and the show was filmed at 8PM on September 8, 1951. The show title […]
TeleTales #6…NBC’s Gemini 5 Co-ordination Plan, August 1965 Here is a rare mapping of how all the dozens of elements of the multi-day broadcast would lay out. Notice ground zero is Studio 8H and just to the right, we see Studio 5H…the breaking news studio we talked about in the post just before this, which […]
The History Of Video Tape Development By The Man Who Did It! [pdf-embedder url=”https://eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Early-History-of-Video-Tape-1956-1964-The-Notes-of-Mel-Sater.pdf” title=”Early History of Video Tape (1956-1964) The Notes of Mel Sater”] Above is Melvin Sater’s 18 page account of those early days of developing the first commercially available line of video tape. Most of this amazing read has to do with […]