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Ultra Rare! Cronkite Goodbye To Huntley, & Huntley – Brinkley Finale That I know of, this old demo tape from long time Miami news man Bob Mayer is the best, and one of the only captures of Walter Cronkite’s farewell to Chet Huntley, which even includes an unheard of insert from Huntley. AND, immediately…

Eyes Of A Generation Camera Collection, 2009 News Story Fortunately, I’ve lost 30+ pounds since this new story from February of 2009. It was shot and aired on Atlanta’s NBC affiliate WXIA, but was seen on 59 other NBC affiliates as well. Last week, a professional still photographer came up and spent 5 hours…

NBC Studio 8G Cameras In Action…1947 This video begins the television portion of this excellent look inside NBC’s 30 Rock studios. The cameras are the NBC built “ND-8G” Image Orthicons and are shooting a rehearsal of ‘Hour Glass’…one of NBC TV’s first shows that we’ll cover in detail in another post. For the whole…

GREAT! NBC’s First Live Coast To Coast Color Spectacular! On Sept. 12, 1954 NBC broadcast their first live coast to coast color spectacular. The 90 minute show, “Satin & Spurs” was produced by Max Liebman and starred Betty Hutton. Above is a black and white kinescope of the whole show, but there’s no mistaking…

‘Broadway Open House’…The Start Of Late Night Television This is some of the only surviving video of the show, and in the photo is host, Jerry Lester on stage in the brand new NBC Studio 6A, hosting network television’s first late-night comedy-variety series. It was telecast live on NBC from May 29, 1950 to…

Very Cool Gag Opening…’Red Shelton Hour’ 1962 Wait till you see what’s under the black dust cover on the RCA TK41! As you’ll see in this :30 clip, this is actually in CBS Television City Studio 33, but we are lead to believe otherwise. Enjoy! Thanks to William David French for discovering this. Source

Ch Ch Ch Changes Recording and editing video recordings today is NOTHING like it was when the state of the art was 2″ quad machines. Here’s a quick look back in time to the early 60s. Source

Super Rare Footage…Live Television At 1939 World’s Fair After the opening days of the fair that were broadcast by NBC, the RCA Pavilion had a camera that visitors could walk in front of and see themselves on a monitor. It was all the rage and certificates were issued stating that the bearer had indeed…

There’s No Place Like “Home”…Studio 33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21bd_zY3MS0&ab_channel=CBSNews Here’s Carol Burnett with CBS Newsman Lee Cowan. In the clip linked above, you’ll see his 8 minute visit with her that ran on ‘Sunday Morning’. Nice piece with some interesting shots along the way. Enjoy! Source

Garry Moore & Carol Burnet Here in a rehearsal hall, Gary Moore goes over the show with a young Carol just behind him. She joined the show in 1959 and stayed till ’62, but after this video clip, we’ll get into some of the things that lead up to this. After spending her first…

1960s NBC Color Promo This is a :60 second promo for NBC color programs shot at the “Perry Como Show” at the Ziegfeld Theater that shows the lighting director hard at work with a TK41 set to shoot soon. Source

53 Seconds Of Fun We Never Saw On The Air! CLASSIC! Source

KTLA Mobile Units 1956 In the first 3 or 4 minutes, we get to see the KTLA mobile units set up their TK30s and film cameras to cover the opening of the Capitol Records Tower. After that, there is tour of the new digs, that takes in all but the recording studios. Thanks to…

ABC…Saved By The Bell & Whistle ABC was in big trouble till sports programming saved it. In this Silver Anniversary clip, Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell pay tribute to ‘Wide World Of Sports’ and some of the eras top athletes. Source

1 Hour Special…Inside Jay Ward Productions Narrated by William Conrad, and featuring all the principals, here is how Rocky & Bullwinkle, a true cartoon classic and others came together. Unfortunately the first minute is missing, but the next 59 are GREAT! Enjoy! Source

Now, THIS IS FUNNY! Ernie Kovacs spoofs Howdy with his own take on the show. NBC staff announcer Bill Wendell plays Clarabelle and I think the crew has put real liquor in the bottle as a gag. Enjoy! Source

Jay Ward’s First Adventure In Cartoonland…Crusader Rabbit Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television. The concept was test marketed in 1948, while the initial episode – Crusader vs. the State of Texas – (below) aired on KNBH (now KNBC) in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 1950. The concept of…

The Voices Of ‘Rocky And Bullwinkle’ Here are June Foray and Bill Scott and at the end, William Conrad. I’ll let June and Bill tell you who’s voices they did! Enjoy! Source

Inside The Iconoscope & One Of The First Orthicon Cameras Revised from the earlier post: In 1941, TV was still quite a novelty, as this clip portrays. At 1:27 in this RCA film “Magic In The Air”, you get a look at one of the first RCA Orthicon cameras and the first ever mobile…