Time Capsule…1960 ‘Price Is Right’ Technical Director’s Script

Thanks to our friend Gady Reinhold, here is part of the July 4, 1960 script for ‘The Price Is Right’, from the Colonial Theater in New York. First thought, take a look at this cool shot of one of the Colonial’s original prototype RCA TK40s in action on the set of a January 1960 ‘Price Is Right’ with Buddy Girrard at the controls. This episode lays out a lot like this script.

The director was Paul Alter who was a longtime Goodson-Todman director and stayed with the show when in went to CBS in Hollywood.

This script is the Technical Director’s, who was most likely Michael Rosar. In his hand written notes, on the opening page F1 refers to a film chain at 30 Rock, as it was labeled on the switcher. E1 stands for effects row 1 on the switcher which is set for a an effect shot between camera 3 and film chain 2. Two of the pages show prize descriptions and on them, you can see how many shots were used.

One page shows the end of a film commercial and then a film roll on F2 which is followed on the next page by the start of another prize description using the clip on F2 with the jewelry.

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