I get queeze just looking at this, and we only see about half of what looks to be about a 40-foot platform without a rope or rail in site. This is CBC cameraman in Halifax, Nova Scotia covering the 1959 royal visit from Queen Elizabeth. Enjoy and share, but don’t tell OSHA. -Bobby Ellerbee
On this date in 1957, American Bandstand debuted on the ABC Television Network. Many tell of Dick Clark going to ABC with the show, but…according to Leonard Goldenson, it didn’t happen that way. Mr. Goldenson is the titan that built the network into the one we know today, and this narrative is based on his […]
The Masters At Work…Perry Como Welcomes Bob Hope This great video clip starts with Hope “waiting in the wings” in front of at RCA TK41. This was just two months after the debut of The Ziegfeld Theater as NBC’s newest color studio. As you can see, Perry is a cool a customer as you will […]
“Thank God For Canada”! RCA Sales From 1965 – 69, RCA sold a total of 376 TK42s. From 1967-70 they sold 93 TK43s. Except for a few dozen sold to the CBC and Radio Canada, all other sales were to local stations. It was the only RCA camera the US networks never bought. The next […]
Home Of ‘Queen For A Day’…Moulin Rouge, 6230 W. Sunset Blvd You can see the main room of The Moulin Rouge in the first few seconds of this video. NBC carried the show weekday afternoons at 1:30 from 1956 till 1960 when it moved to ABC and stayed on till ’64. ‘Queen for a Day’ […]