Behind The Scenes At “The Camel News Caravan”, 1953
On February 24, 2017
- TV History
Behind The Scenes At “The Camel News Caravan”, 1953
This month, we’ve done several stories on the history of the early TV news shows, and I thought this would be a nice compliment to all that we’ve seen. This is a short but sweet article on how John Cameron Swayze’s show was done by his director, Ralph Peterson.
Notice that their location is in the NBC Uptown Studios at 106th Street, at the Pathe complex. In this Emmy Legends video clip, former NBC News president Ruven Frank, who is listed in the article as the show’s Chief Writer at the time, describes how the Caravan film operations worked. https://youtu.be/80_Pv9Aizsg?t=15m21s
Behind the scenes of John Cameron Swayze’s “Camel News Caravan” is where this article from 1953 takes us!
My studio too
As the current studio manager and engineer in charge at this studio I often think about the history of this wonderful stage!