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Look Familiar? Did You Ever “Play Television” As A Kid?
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Look Familiar? Did You Ever “Play Television” As A Kid? I Did… These photos are from 1959 and show is a mighty fine store bought camera. Something I never saw before. Mine were all home made. I’ll share my story if you share yours, OK? I remember being in the first grade and already…
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A Video Visit To NBC Brooklyn Studios, 1967
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By Request…A Visit To NBC Brooklyn Studios, 1967 Here, you’ll see the great RCA TK41s in action at NBC Brooklyn. The date was March 13, 1966 and the production was ‘The Bell Telephone Hour’. That episode was “The Music Of The Movies” and in the clip you’ll see (Oz scarecrow) Ray Bolger and a…
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Setting The Stage, And The Table, For Thanksgiving….
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Setting The Stage, And The Table, For Thanksgiving…. Thanks to Craig Wilson’s great photos, we’ve been able to visit the ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ set for a couple of months now and meet some of the people that bring it to us. Is it just me, or do these pictures have a glow of warmth…
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Look Familiar? May 1940…In Front Of The Ed Sullivan Theater
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Look Familiar? May 1940…In Front Of The Ed Sullivan Theater Built in 1927 as The Hammerstein Theater, CBS took a long term lease on the dark venue in 1935 and converted it to a large radio theater. In 1950, they converted it to a television theater with the designation, CBS Studio 50. This is…
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Look Familiar? I Thought So…You Were Not Alone!
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Look Familiar? I Thought So…You Were Not Alone! In reviewing the comments from yesterday’s story on Rosie, I noticed some conversations about drawing pictures of cameras and studios as kids, so…I thought we’d take a trip down memory lane. As it turns out, a lot of us that went into the field did this…
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October 2006…My RCA TK41C Arrives From Los Angeles
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October 2006…My RCA TK41C Arrives From Los Angeles Till yesterday, I never had a photo of Rosie at KTLA that I was sure was her…now I do. Rosie is a TK41C which has a different left side exhaust port than the RCA TK41As and Bs and was the only C model owned by KTLA.…
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Directing JFK’s Arrival Back In Washington…November 22,1963
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It is an honor for this site to have among it’s members, Max A. Schindler. Max not only directed ‘Meet The Press’ for over twenty years, but directed many special events for NBC including parts of the John and Robert Kennedy funerals and Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. In the first…
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November 22, 1963…Television Coverage, Assassination Day
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November 22, 1963…Television Coverage, Assassination Day The only silver lining to one of our darkest days was the local media. The Dallas/Ft. Worth stations were well equipped and on the scene for a big day and were pooling coverage which would become invaluable over the next few days. It started in Ft. Worth with…
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By The Way…Happy Thanksgiving Week!
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By The Way…Happy Thanksgiving Week! Some of you will be off, and some working overtime on parades and football, some doing news and some are in Neverland with Peter Pan, but where ever you are and what ever you are doing, enjoy the holiday! -Bobby Ellerbee Source
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The Final Seconds Of Camelot…51 Years Ago Today, Dealey Plaza
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The Final Seconds Of Camelot…51 Years Ago Today, Dealey Plaza Today’s remembrance of the assassination of President Kennedy is marked here by some rare, not often seen photos from that day. The sequence of pictures begins with the motorcade’s turn onto Elm Street at Dealey Plaza. Except for the last one, all of these…
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‘The Dean Martin Show’, Behind The Scenes
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‘The Dean Martin Show’, Behind The Scenes Long time NBC cameraman Russell Ross ask for this, so here you go Russell. Before we start, here’s a must see 3 minute video that perfectly captures the mood and style of the show. In it, Dean fakes his way through a song and dance with Loyd…
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By Request: A Look At NBC Burbank, Studio 1…1963
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By Request: A Look At NBC Burbank, Studio 1…1963 The first :45 seconds of this pilot for ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ gives us a nice wide angle shot Studio 1, which would later become Johnny Carson’s home. Notice the RCA TK41 still has three cables and is mounted on the old Houston Fearless TD…
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Just For Fun…Can You Guess What Famous Star Is Wearing These?
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Just For Fun…Can You Guess What Famous Star Is Wearing These? The actor in question had to wear these wooden lifts to get him to eye-level with his female co start while shooting a film that has become a classic, that we all know and love. Here are some hints…he was 5′ 8″ and…
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Behind The Scenes At The White House…
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Behind The Scenes At The White House… In case you were wondering what the live broadcast configuration of speeches delivered from the East Room look like these days, here’s your answer. Just behind President Obama is the main head-on pool camera, and to the left of it is a backup camera, which is always…
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November 21, 1980…Who Shot J. R.? The Big Reveal
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November 21, 1980…Who Shot J. R.? The Big Reveal On this day in 1980, 83 million people tuned in to television’s popular primetime drama ‘Dallas’ to find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate. J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous March 21, which now stands as…
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Don’t Look Now, But…
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This was a January 1956 storm that hit the California coast with huge waves. The surfers may have loved it, but KTLA lost a camera covering the event…don’t know if it was this one or another, but this cameraman is about to get a big surprise. Thanks to David Zoning fro the pix. Enjoy…
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Remember Hullabaloo? January 12, 1965 – August 29, 1966, NBC
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Remember Hullabaloo? January 12, 1965 – August 29, 1966, NBC This was NBC’s answer to ABC’s ‘Shindig’, a half hour primetime music show for us teenagers. I remember both well, do you? The show was taped in three different locations for some reason. It usually came from NBC Brooklyn, but Studio 8H also hosted…
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The Early Days Of Audio Recording – Bing Crosby & Ampex, Part 1
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Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had a lot of exposure to magnetic recording, especially video. We’ve also learned just how deeply involved Bing Crosby and Ampex were in building the foundations of this media, so today, we are going to look at the beginning of audio tape and it’s use in radio…
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The Early Days Of Audio Recording – Bing Crosby & Ampex, Part 2
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Below is Part 2 of Mr. Philips first hand account of the problems and solutions Bing Crosby encountered when he decided to leave live radio and instead, record his shows. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee _________________________________________________ While the Crosby show was struggling with the disk recordings, a new technology had arrived. Jack Mullin had…
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November 19, 1959…America Meets Rocky And Bullwinkle
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November 19, 1959…America Meets Rocky And Bullwinkle Today is the anniversary of the debut of one of my all time favorite cartoon shows…probably one of yours too. The show debuted as ‘Rocky And His Friends’ on ABC and although done in color, it was broadcast in black and white. Before third season began in…
