{"id":21758,"date":"2016-07-21T05:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21758"},"modified":"2021-02-11T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T21:05:38","slug":"rare-color-film-5-colgate-comedy-hour-stars-at-el-capitan-at-the-link-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21758","title":{"rendered":"Rare Color Film&#8230;5 &#8220;Colgate Comedy Hour&#8221; Stars At El Capitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rare Color Film&#8230;5 &#8220;Colgate Comedy Hour&#8221; Stars At El Capitan<\/p>\n<p>At the link, you will see Eddie Cantor, Bud Abbott &amp; Lou Costello and Dean Martin &amp; Jerry Lewis arriving at NBC&#8217;s El Capitan Theater in Hollywood in 1953.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin &amp; Lewis at NBC 1953\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O7Frk8Z1vEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a short, but sweet color home movie shot on the south side of the theater, as they arrive for rehearsal. Because the hosts rotated on a weekly basis, it would be rare for all of them to be there at the same time, but I looks like that may have been the case.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, you can see the stairs pictured below. If the building looks familiar, in &#8217;63, ABC took over the lease and called this, The Hollywood Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The El Capitan is at 1735 North Vine Street, just a couple of blocks north of where NBC&#8217;s Radio City West was located, and was NBC\u2019s first \u201cspill-over\u201d location for television once AT&amp;T linked the coast with the rest of the country in 1951.<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, 1951 the El Capitan Theatre was leased to NBC for fifteen years at a cost of $30,500 per year. On Sunday, September 30, 1951, \u201cThe Colgate Comedy Hour\u201d became NBC\u2019s first regularly scheduled west-to-east television broadcast, and it came from The El Capitan, on a bi-weekly basis, with the other weeks done in New York. Thanks to our friend Rick Scheckman for sharing this clip. Enjoy! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1046575912046624\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rare-Color-Film...5-Colgate-Comedy-Hour-Stars-At-El-Capitan-At-the-link-y\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1046575912046624\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare Color Film&#8230;5 &#8220;Colgate Comedy Hour&#8221; Stars At El Capitan At the link, you will see Eddie Cantor, Bud Abbott &amp; Lou Costello and Dean Martin &amp; Jerry Lewis arriving at NBC&#8217;s El Capitan Theater in Hollywood in 1953. This is a short, but sweet color home movie shot on the south side of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[763,724,720,782,725],"class_list":["post-21758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-att","tag-cast","tag-host","tag-nbc","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58514,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions\/58514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}