The “Other” Me…Me As The Sheriff On ‘Squidbillies’ Most of you may not know this, but I am a cartoon voice actor too. It occurred to me that I had not mentioned this here in quite a while, so, since I’m going into Atlanta this morning to record another ‘Squidbillies’ episode, now seems to be […]
TeleTales #91…Television’s First “Live Animated” Commercial? Take a close look at these three amazing photos from early 1947. Live from NBC Studio 3H, we see a Bulova Watch commercial board with a Rube Goldberg type scene with gears and gizmos that move when cranked from behind. Notice at the top, the scroll window for copy […]
Look Familiar? I Thought So…You Were Not Alone! In reviewing the comments from yesterday’s story on Rosie, I noticed some conversations about drawing pictures of cameras and studios as kids, so…I thought we’d take a trip down memory lane. As it turns out, a lot of us that went into the field did this and […]
August 19, 1949…First CBS Color Test Footage Shot The day before this, CBS did their first experimental color broadcast in Washington, D.C. for the FCC using the system they were building for Smith, Kline & French which was to be used in operating rooms for medical teaching. The next week, on August 25, RCA announced […]