An Oscar Week Favorite…Lewis Horvitz Directing The Awards
Here’s a video several have requested. From the 69th Annual Academy Awards show, here’s the director in the truck at the Shrine Auditorium on March 24, 1997. Gil Cates produced. Enjoy.
ULTRA RARE! Meet NBC’s FIRST CAMERAMAN…Albert W. Protzman Late yesterday afternoon, I stumbled across this incredibly rare piece of television history in a happy accident, while researching the locations for the guided tour post just before this. In the coming days, I will share what I learned from Mr. Protzman’s writings, but for now…let’s meet […]
December 17, 1989…’The Simpsons’ Debuts On Fox..D’OH! Here are two great short videos that cover a lot of the history and creation of the show with not much overlap. The embedded video below features the creators and how ‘The Simpsons’ grew from bumper shorts on ‘The Tracy Ulman Show’ into it’s own dynasty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ8aSQZ8vJg In […]
Camera Rarities 1, Of 3…First NBC Tests Of The RCA TK30? Thanks to Tom Buckley, here is a very rare photo, that I think was taken in the two week period between June 5 and June 18, 1946. On June 19, 1946, NBC’s broadcast of the Joe Lewis-Billy Conn rematch at Yankee Stadium, was the […]
MUST SEE HISTORY OF EARLY LOS ANGELES TELEVISION! KTLA’s 70th Anniversary Is Today! January 22, 1947 – 2017 This amazing video is packed with ultra rare historical footage of not only KTLA, but from the early days of all the Los Angeles television stations! The show is hosted by Bob Hope, Betty White, Steve Allen, […]