{"id":33906,"date":"2012-04-08T15:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T19:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33906"},"modified":"2023-05-14T14:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T18:35:47","slug":"happy-easter-for-sullivan-fans-here-the-pize-egg-john-moffitt-worked-as-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33906","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sullivan History With Director John Moffitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Happy-Easter-For-Sullivan-Fans-here-the-pize-egg...-John-Moffitt-worked-as-a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz xod5an3\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1603h9y x1u7k74 xo1l8bm xzsf02u\">A GREAT HALF HOUR OF HISTORY! Few show are as legendary as THE ED SILLIVAN SHOW, and to hear stories from those on the inside is quite a treat! Here is our friend John Moffitt sharing some of his recollections in part 3 of 9 interviews with the Television Academy.com<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>John worked first as a production assistant and later as assistant director on &#8220;The Ed Sullivan Show&#8221; for many years. In this interview segment, he covers a lot of ground that&#8217;s fun to hear.<\/p>\n<p>For the first 7 minutes, he talks about working with Ed and then, the conversation turns to working with guests. He&#8217;s asked about Barbara Streisand @ 11:00, the Bing Crosby vocal flub that Art Shine fixed @ 14:00, cameras @ 16:45, color @ 18:50 and The Beatles @ 25:13. Good stuff. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>[evp_embed_video url=&#8221;http:\/\/CDN.eyesofageneration.com\/Content\/Viewseum\/JohnMoffitt.mp4&#8243; preload=&#8221;none&#8221; template=&#8221;mediaelement&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/318889414845541\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GREAT HALF HOUR OF HISTORY! Few show are as legendary as THE ED SILLIVAN SHOW, and to hear stories from those on the inside is quite a treat! Here is our friend John Moffitt sharing some of his recollections in part 3 of 9 interviews with the Television Academy.com John worked first as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33907,"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":[714,683,703,728,806],"class_list":["post-33906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-assistant-director","tag-cameras","tag-director","tag-guests","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33906","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=33906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78663,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33906\/revisions\/78663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}