Christina Skaggs…CBS Veteran And Pioneer Female Camera Op
Christina Skaggs…CBS Veteran And Pioneer Female Camera Op
A few days back, we met Christina in videos of her work on ‘The Match Game’. As promised, she’s sent us a few new photos and this the first one…the second one will follow in a separate post with video.
Although camera work has mostly been a “mans world”, there were some highly skilled women along the way who joined in this fraternity and several of them are our friends, like ABC’s Donna Quante.
Here’s what Christina wrote as a caption for this photo…
“This is me on the crane camera on ‘Tattletales’, a Goodson-Todman game show at CBS TV City that aired in the seventies. With me is Jim Riley, my arm operator and a great cameraman who shot Red Foxx and the old Playhouse 90’s way back when. I was so lucky that I came in at a time when big variety shows were the norm and I worked with the men who came from radio and started TVC when it was nothing but an orange grove. A lot of great talent on this show – one of the very friendliest who sat on my crane arm and told me stories about shooting Playhouse 90’s on that very stage many years before was Robert Blake”
Thanks for the pix and background Christiana, and thanks for reminding us of ‘Tattletales’…more on that in today’s next post! Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
We have one at whio in Dayton who has been there since the late 70s
I was one of the first female camera operators in Florida for an ABC affiliate back in 1976.
What is the person doing on the platform in the background?
Very cool
I always loved riding cranes, both as an AC and as an operator.
SMACK TECH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FDyV8kYSE
Love the coffee cup on the crane.