Surprise Discovery! Sam Donaldson…Cub Reporter, 1967
At 11:05 you’ll see WTOP TV shooting film then picking up the story in the studio with a very young Sam Donaldson on the set with an RCA TK41. You’ll even see him in the viewfinder! Sam’s part actually starts at 10:27 and he is back with the TK41 at 13:15. Enjoy!
The Norelco Era: Before we talk about the cameras, let’s talk about Ed’s “personal cameraman”, Mr. George Moses who whe see above shooting the boss with a new Norelco PC71. Stage Manager Eddie Brinkman was with Ed from the first show till the last one and George was there for 21 of the 23 years! […]
Behind The Scenes…NBC Sports Olympic Coverage Wrap Up Two years of planning, 102 shipping containers of gear, 1000 cameras, 2700 monitors, and 3000 people, all came together for NBC to televise 11,000 athletes competing in 28 sports over 37 venues. Thanks to Andrew Jackson at NBC’s Englewood Cliffs NJ facility, the master control, transmission and […]
TeleTales #42…One Of The First Television Commercials Somehow looking forward to new commercials has become a part of the Super Bowl madness we experience each year, but I seriously doubt that the people that made the very first TV spots would believe us if we could tell them. Below is a shot from inside NBC […]
How Howard Hughes Unwittingly Brought Hollywood’s Movies To TV On March 5, 1956, “King Kong” debuted on WOR TV, New York. This was the first time the 1933 RKO classic was shown on television anywhere. The debut set records for viewing with an estimated 80% of television families in the area watching it on WOR’s […]