Wizard Of Oz – Behind The Scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKcxX6beKl0
When the ‘Wizard of Oz’ had it’s last network broadcast on CBS (May 8th, 1998), the bumpers around the commercial breaks had interesting behind the scenes tr…
Pretty Maids All In A Row… Last month I posted the other four pix from this ABC event at Pebble Beach in the late 60s, but just found this fifth photo I had forgotten about. These are the dozen TK41Cs that Roone Arlidge ordered for ABC in 1966. RCA had orders for a dozen more […]
This is part of the first ever dramatic television broadcast called “The Queen’s Messenger” and what you are seeing in this clip below is how they shot a close up scene that concentrated on the actors hands, and what they had in them. The experiment was broadcast by GE’s Schenectady, New York television station […]
NBC’s Mega Mobile Unit: 1952 This is quite a step up from the unit in the photo below this and probably can handle up to 6 cameras. I think this unit was finished just in time for the 1952 political conventions which were both held at Chicago’s International Amphitheater. The republicans were there July 7-11 […]
NBC’s “Matinee Theater”…October 31, 1955 – June 27, 1958 This morning, I sat down to write a story on the first ever use of a live chromakey effect on network television. That happened on this show, “Matinee Theater” in June of 1957, but…then I realized what the show was and was as surprised as you […]