{"id":24769,"date":"2014-09-10T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24769"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:10:36","slug":"a-rare-look-at-nbc-studio-8h-1954saturday-night-live-fans-and-staff-will-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24769","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Look At NBC Studio 8H&#8230;1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Rare-Look-At-NBC-Studio-8H...1954-Saturday-Night-Live-fans-and-staff-will-g.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>A Rare Look At NBC Studio 8H&#8230;1954<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; fans and staff will get a kick out of this too as this will look quite familiar. The opens with the studio doors of 8H bursting open and the singing cast making it&#8217;s way to the 8th floor elevators to welcome the show&#8217;s star, Dorothy Collins, back from maternity leave. <\/p>\n<p>If you look closely, you can see the art deco page desk behind them just as they come out. I&#8217;ll post a photo of me at that desk in the comments section to refresh your memory. They have cleverly hidden the lights behind flats in the hallway scene. <\/p>\n<p>Notice that when they come back into the studio, they go into the same kind of tunnel we see now on SNL, but it&#8217;s not the same. <\/p>\n<p>The SNL &#8220;temporary&#8221; bleachers on the 9th floor are supported by scaffolding on the studio floor, and were not installed till 1975. At this time, I think the seating in 8H was all pull out bleacher seating, much like you see in high school gyms. I think what they are running through is a curtained pathway between two bleacher sections. This space would have to always be clear as this is how equipment and staff moved in and out of the studio.   <\/p>\n<p>By the way, Studio 8H did not go color until June 24, 1963. The color photographs I have posted showing Dorothy Collins with NBC TK41s were taken at Brooklyn II where the show moved in 1957. <\/p>\n<p>See any familiar faces? I see Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms and a few more. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TPzhhzkaT24&#038;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TPzhhzkaT24&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You - YHP cast welcomes Dorothy Collins back to show after having her first baby\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TPzhhzkaT24?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>Dorothy Collins is welcomed back to the Your Hit Parade show by the entire cast of the program. Dorothy took a leave of absence to have her first child and P&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/726613980709487\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rare Look At NBC Studio 8H&#8230;1954 &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; fans and staff will get a kick out of this too as this will look quite familiar. The opens with the studio doors of 8H bursting open and the singing cast making it&#8217;s way to the 8th floor elevators to welcome the show&#8217;s star, Dorothy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24770,"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":[724,782,725,1105],"class_list":["post-24769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast","tag-nbc","tag-star","tag-your-hit-parade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769","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=24769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}