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October 22, 1939…The First Ever Pro Football Telecast
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October 22, 1939…The First Ever Pro Football Telecast 77 years ago today, the relationship between professional football and television began when NBC earned a spot in history by televising a pro football game. Only 22 days before, NBC had televised the first ever college game on September 30th. A crowd of 13,050 were on…
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October 22, 1962…In The Oval Office For The Cuban Missile Crisis
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October 22, 1962…In The Oval Office For The Cuban Missile Crisis As Told By The Guy In The Red Circle, A MUST READ STORY! From the October 21, 2012 edition of The Savannah Morning News, here is the story in his own words. ______________________________________________________________________________ Barry Ostrow was front and center for the Cuban Missile…
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STATE OF THE ART: The Studio Cameras…A Primer On Innovations
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STATE OF THE ART: The Studio Cameras…A Primer On Innovations The best way to illustrate the current configurations of camera platforms is with this set of images from Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight” show, taken for us by Bruce Oldham, who was Camera 3 with Conan for many years. Below is a typical setup…a Canon DigiSuper studio…
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How Cartoon Trump/Clinton Come To Life On ‘The Late Show’
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How Colbert Does “Live” Interviews With Cartoon Hillary & Donald New technologies to create live animations are gaining attention this year with the use of Adobe’s Character Animator. The new program can shorten the time to create animations from weeks to hours, by allowing animation puppets to immediately mimic the movements of someone’s lips,…
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October 21, 1954…James Bond Moves From Page To TV Screens
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October 21, 1954…James Bond Moves From Page To TV Screens On this day in 1954, Barry Nelson became the first actor to play James Bond. Before this, 007 had only been a literary character in the novels written by Ian Fleming. The event was a one hour, live presentation of “Casino Royale” on “Climax”;…
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A Guided Tour Of Some Of Television’s Early Studios…
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A Guided Tour Of Some Of Television’s Early Studios… You may have seen this before, but may not have known the historic places you were seeing. Today, we will remedy that with a guided tour of this film, so let’s get started. At 1:58 we are in GE’s WRGB in Schenectady NY. RCA began…
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The Historic Hudson Theater…Newly Renovated & Broadway Ready
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The Historic Hudson Theater…Newly Renovated & Broadway Ready Look what they found in the basement! In 1995, the theater was bought by the Millennium Broadway Hotel and used it as a conference center, but last year it was sold to the London based Ambassador Theater Group. Since then, the theater has undergone more major…
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“SNL” Production Designer Eugene Lee; There Since Day 1
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“SNL” Production Designer Eugene Lee…There Since Day 1 As sure as “Saturday Night Live” is television’s most unique production, Eugene Lee is television’s most experienced designer. No one has imagined more sets and scenery than this man, who at 77, is still going strong. Here is part of his amazing story. Enjoy and share!…
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October 19, 1951…The CBS Color System Comes To An End
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October 19, 1951…The CBS Color System Comes To An End The CBS field sequential color cameras broadcast 111 hours of live color over a 17 week period between June 24, 1951 and October 20, 1951. On October 19, less than a month after sales of the first CBS made color receivers began, Charles E.…
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October 1955…Sid Caesar, With One Of Live TV’s Most Famous “Saves”
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October 1955…Sid Caesar, With One Of Live TV’s Most Famous “Saves” Sid Caesar made television history on “Caesar’s Hour” with this improvised bit of comic genius, which has become one of the most famous “saves” in the history of live television. During this 13 minute sketch of “Gallipacci” (a take off on the famous…
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October 18, 1964…Hallmark Brings “The Fantasticks” To Television
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October 18, 1964…Hallmark Brings “The Fantasticks” To Television At the link above is a kinescope of the famous Broadway play, that was the October 18, 1964 presentation of “The Hallmark Hall Of Fame”. Below, the photo shows John Davidson speaking to his father, who is played by Bert Lahr. This was done live to…
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October 18, 1952…RCA’s First Experimental Color Football Broadcast
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Below is a rare look at RCA/NBC’s first color remote unit, used for this color-cast. Although it was seen by 99.9% of the audience in black and white, it did at least prove the “compatible color” claim RCA made for its Dot Sequential color system. The year before, CBS had broadcast a football game…
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The Demise of NBC Burbank Part 2 by Richard Wirth
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The Demise of NBC Burbank Part 2 by Richard Wirth – ProVideo Coalition Recently, I wrote about the beginnings of NBC’s historic lot in Burbank as the Peacock network completed its move to nearby Universal Studios. The look back on NBC Burbank’s sixty-two year history wouldn’t be complete without exploring some of the technical…
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Eyes Of A Generation…Celebrating 10,000 Page Likes! THANK YOU!
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Eyes Of A Generation…Celebrating 10,000 Page Likes! THANK YOU! One of the reasons I started this page was to be able to share unique photos and videos that depict television’s glorious history, that also include the back stage element of the business. Like this. The other reason was to create a home for television…
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“I Love Lucy” RARE On The Set Video
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This is a close to “being there” as we’ll ever get. This clip, from an “I Love Lucy” movie, takes us inside the Desilu Playhouse and gives us an ultra rare glimpse of what it was like on the set of one of television’s most famous shows. The location is General Services Studios, Studio…
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October 15, 1973…”Tomorrow” Debuted On NBC
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October 15, 1973…”Tomorrow” Debuted On NBC The only way to remember this great show is to remember what made it great…Tom Snyder. On the event of his death in 2007, here are remembrances from Brian Williams, Jay Leno and David Letterman. Incidentally, Letterman’s NBC show replaced “Tomorrow”. “Tomorrow” followed “Tonight” With Johnny Carson and…
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Conan on TBS: Behind the Scene
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I’m proud to share with you an exclusive look behind the scenes at Conan’s TBS program from our friend Bruce Oldham. The cameras used on Conan’s version of Tonight were almost identical to those you’ll see here on Stage 15 at Warner Brothers. Camera rehearsals are a couple of hours before the afternoon tape session,…
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Just For Fun…Rear View…Of The “Laugh In” Joke Wall!
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Just For Fun…Rear View…Of The “Laugh In” Joke Wall! Enjoy and share. -Bobby Ellerbee Source
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Flashback…October 14, 2010; “30 Rock” Live From NBC Studio 8H
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Flashback…October 14, 2010; “30 Rock” Live From NBC Studio 8H This 12 minute piece is full of great stuff, all shot in the real NBC Studio 8H. “30 Rock” was usually filmed at New York’s Silvercup Studios, but on October 14, 2010, the show was done live in 8H. Just like in the days…
