Remembering Noel Neill…Superman’s Lois Lane Is Gone
Actress Noel Neill, the First Lois Lane of the Screen, Dies at 95
She starred as the intrepid Daily Planet newspaper reporter in 1948 and ’50 movie serials and in TV’s ‘Adventures of Superman.’
An Expensive Hobby Restoring early videotape machines to working order is not small feat, but John Turner does it. Here’s a demonstration of how his RCA TK60 quad machine works. What Labguy did on his spring break series, first video. John Turner demonstrates the 1969 RCA TR-60 quadruplex broadcast video tape recorder that he has […]
How Big Are The NBC Studios At 30 Rock? When I saw the Seth Meyers debut Monday night, I wondered why they had not gone with a bigger set, but I had forgotten that with 8H taking up 10,000 square feet of that floor, 8G is actually considerably smaller that the 6th floor studios. Source
You Won’t Believe Your Eyes! How To Make Miniature TV Studio A few years back, our friend Jim Wickey made a beautiful, perfectly detailed studio for a real TV show. The RCA TK11 scale models are stunningly realistic, but are made of cardboard. Here are some shots of the finished product, and…his how to instructions. […]
Time For Beany! April 1950 Above is a photo from April of 1950 at KTLA. In the middle, doing Cecil is Stan Freberg and on the right is Daws Butler doing Beany. I’m not sure who the ‘spare hand’ is handling the seltzer bottle, but it could be producer Bob Clampett. If not, it may […]