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.
NBC Tour Time #2…30 Rock As Only David Letterman Can Show It Just for fun, here a clip from around 1985, just before the GE sale, with Dave bring out some of the many selling points. I particularly like the trip to the Tom Brokaw news set;>) Thanks to David Crosthwait for the clip. Enjoy […]
September 11, 1967…’The Carol Burnett Show’ Debuts on CBS Missed this one yesterday, but better late than never. Although I would love to show you the first episode of the show, that’s not possible. As a matter of fact, I think the first five years of the show are still locked away and have not […]
By Request: A Look At NBC Burbank, Studio 1…1963 The first :45 seconds of this pilot for ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ gives us a nice wide angle shot Studio 1, which would later become Johnny Carson’s home. Notice the RCA TK41 still has three cables and is mounted on the old Houston Fearless TD 1 […]
THE BIG REVEAL! Why Norelco instead of Phillips? Many have wondered and asked this question, so here is the answer. From some point in the early 1940s, Philco was legally able to prevent Philips from using the name “Philips” on any products marketed in the USA, because the two names were judged to sound similar […]