{"id":29236,"date":"2013-07-30T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=29236"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T17:14:43","slug":"after-months-of-searching-i-finally-know-the-story-behind-this-fabulous-photo-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=29236","title":{"rendered":"After months of searching, I finally know the story behind this photo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.488639914506896.98521.189359747768249\/488639934506894\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Live-From-NBCs-Colonial-Theater...Saturday-Color-Carnival-1957-After-months\" \/><\/a><br \/>After months of searching, I finally know the story behind this fabulous photo array! This is NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Saturday Color Carnival: A Salute To Baseball&#8217;! This was done live from the Colonial Theater in the early spring of 1957. Notice a couple of the cameras are RCA TK40s and a couple are TK41s. The lineup of star players is astounding!<\/p>\n<p>Emceed by Gene Kelly, the 90-minute extravaganza brings together dozens of special guests from Baseball and Showbiz to commemorate in song, sketch and story, the opening of the 1957 baseball season. Among the special&#8217;s many highlights: The introduction of 1956&#8217;s MVPs, Mickey Mantle and Don Newcombe; comedy playlets starring the likes of Robert Alda (father of Alan Alda) and Ed Gardner of Duffy&#8217;s Tavern radio fame; songs performed by Janis Paige, Tony Bennett, and ventriloquist Paul Winchell (with the help of dummy Jerry Mahoney); a &#8220;dream outfield&#8221; segment built around Stan Musial, Leo Durocher and Ted Williams; a &#8220;baseball rock-n-roll&#8221; specialty sung by Bill Hayes; old-time baseball newsreel clips, narrated by radiocaster Mel Allen; and a special closing message, delivered by then-Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick (long before his vilification as the architect behind the &#8220;asterisking&#8221; of Roger Maris&#8217; 61st homer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/550971438273743\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of searching, I finally know the story behind this fabulous photo array! This is NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Saturday Color Carnival: A Salute To Baseball&#8217;! This was done live from the Colonial Theater in the early spring of 1957. Notice a couple of the cameras are RCA TK40s and a couple are TK41s. The lineup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25669,"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":[4,1341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameras","category-eras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29236","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=29236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}