’60 Minutes’ And The Green Screens At CBS

As a followup to the photos of the current set, I thought it would be fun to take a look back. On the left is one of the original set chairs from ’60 Minutes’ on display in the lobby of the CBS Broadcast Center.

It is very likely one of the same chairs seen in Glenn Mack’s 1973 photo of the old set which shared space with ‘Captain Kangaroo’ in what I think was Studio 46 or 47. ’60 Minutes’ has always used the chroma key effect on the story set ups with each reporter. Moving from the blue to the green backgrounds may have started on the ‘CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite’ around 1970.

Below left is Dan Rather delivering the weekend news on Sunday, March 4, 1973 with a green screen map. I think this is Cronkite’s desk, but an not sure. More on Walter’s desk in the next post! You’ll see where it was and what’s there now.

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