{"id":24728,"date":"2014-09-14T07:07:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24728"},"modified":"2016-10-26T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:58:09","slug":"cbs-television-citys-first-series-my-friend-irma-heres-the-set-of-my-fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24728","title":{"rendered":"CBS Television City&#8217;s First Series&#8230;&#8217;My Friend Irma&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Television City&#8217;s First Series&#8230;&#8217;My Friend Irma&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the set of &#8216;My Friend Irma&#8217; on the brand new Studio 31\u00a0stage, but before we get to the studio, take a look at the set. This may have been the first time this horizontal production process was used in television. With all the &#8220;rooms&#8221; laid out in a row, the cameras could move up and down the stage for different scenes. In New York, many soap and sit com sets were built like rooms in a house as stage space was limited. For most of it&#8217;s 20 year run, NBC&#8217;s &#8216;The Doctors&#8217; set was in rooms and not on the long set like this.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first series telecast from TVC and ran from January 8, 1952 until June 1954. This is Studio 31&#8217;s original configuration with a camera ramp that went all the way to the control room with space at the rear for cameras too. That I know of, CBS was the only network to use the long hanging banks of flood lights. In the foreground, we see the lighting board and in today&#8217;s next post, we&#8217;ll see it in action as Edward R. Murrow takes us on a tour of the new facilities. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/728237693880449\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/CBS-Television-Citys-First-Series...My-Friend-Irma-Heres-the-set-of-My-Fr\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/728242850546600\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Television City&#8217;s First Series&#8230;&#8217;My Friend Irma&#8217; Here&#8217;s the set of &#8216;My Friend Irma&#8217; on the brand new Studio 31\u00a0stage, but before we get to the studio, take a look at the set. This may have been the first time this horizontal production process was used in television. With all the &#8220;rooms&#8221; laid out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24729,"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":[683,724,783,686,782],"class_list":["post-24728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-cast","tag-cbs","tag-control-room","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24728","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=24728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}