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ULTRA RARE! Inside NBC Radio Studio 6B In 1947…

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ULTRA RARE! Inside NBC Radio Studio 6B In 1947…

Thanks to Alex Cumming, here is the only footage I have ever seen that puts us inside Studio 6B as a radio studio. This is our first and only trip into the stage side control room too.

This is the rehearsal, and later the broadcast of ‘The Bell Telephone Hour’. The conductor is Donald Voorhees, and the chief announcer is Floyd Mack. At around 15:45, announcer Tom Shirley steps in for a three minute Bell System spot.

The featured guest are singers Ezio Pinza and Blanche Thebom. This film was made to show in movie theaters as a promotion for the radio show. Enjoy and share!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT6BN_GnnWI

See more from the AT&T Archives at http://techchannel.att.com/archives Note that audio problems from 11:25 – 11:40 were present in the original source materi…

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7 responses to “ULTRA RARE! Inside NBC Radio Studio 6B In 1947…”

  1. Stephen Mindykowski

    A radio recording of a “Bell Telephone Hour” from 1944, edited for radio services for allied forces overseas:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp42mx7ZSe8

  2. Dave Miller

    And here’s a representative open/close from the “Bell Telephone Hour” from the early 1960s. Taped at NBC’s Studio 8-H in New York. http://youtu.be/IlKTcpCtPwg

  3. Eyes Of A Generation.com

    FYI, earlier today I had called this 6A, that was a typo…it’s 6B. I guess I was in the 6A frame of mind from the earlier posts. Bobby Ellerbee

  4. Val Ginter

    Beautiful find!

  5. Hal Vickery

    One VERY minor point. On radio it was known only as “The Telephone Hour.” On television it became “The Bell Telephone Hour.”

    The other thing that was fun to see was the experimental radio transmission of telephone traffic. Those were the ancestors of today’s microwave towers.

  6. Steve Stevo Parys

    So cool!

  7. Doug Boynton

    FWIW, it appears that the “Bell Telephone Hour” was a Red Network or NBC offering for its entire run, 1940-1958. NBC/Blue was sold in ’43, and pretty much transitioned to ABC by about 1945. (Sorry. You got me curious, and looking it all up…) 😉

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