Via Kinescope…A Trip Back To April 1956 With Milton Berle

On April 21, 2016 - TV History

Via Kinescope…A Trip Back To April 1956 With Milton Berle


Above, we go to the live “Milton Berle Show”, from the USS Hancock in San Diego. Here’s the whole show with Elvis Presley debting “Blue Suede Shoes”, Esther Williams, Harry James and Buddy Rich filling out the bill, with Arnold Stang joining Milton for bit.

This was a color presentation, and that is why the kinescope looks a bit soft. The first five minutes of this are really fun and the Elvis intro comes around the 17 minute mark. After “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Blue Suede Shoes”, Milton becomes Presley’s twin brother, Melvin and possibly sets the stage for The Who’s, Pete Townsend by smashing his guitar. -Bobby Ellerbee

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2 Comments

  1. Russell Ross April 21, 2016

    Those were good days in TV. Someone in television once told me “it’s not the cost of success that kills a show…. it’s the cost of failure”. I believe those words are more true now than ever.

  2. Robert Barker April 21, 2016

    I have the Presley performance parts on a DVD set. This is something that you can see being colorized because there simply aren’t any surviving color elements, because they never existed. This even preceded the short lived lenticular color kine if I’m not mistaken. Presley, ’56, in color, and all we have is a milky kinescope. Sigh.