Eyes Of A Generation Exclusive! ABC’s Disneyland Opening Behind The Scenes
On June 1, 2014
- TV History
An Ultra Rare, Eyes Of A Generation Exclusive! Please SHARE!
Disneyland Opening Day…Behind The Scenes Of The ABC Coverage
This is the in house documentary ABC made for use at their affiliates and sponsor meeting in the fall of 1955. The next post today will be the full broadcast of the program produced by this assemblage of men and machines.
At the time, this was the largest remote ever done by anyone. As you’ll see, rehearsal was a mammoth task in itself with last minute construction making it nearly impossible, but…they pulled it off, and in grand style! Enjoy!
Wonderful! I watched all of these. Rare, indeed! Thanks for sharing!
Film Chain. Started my career in 1981 in TV being a projectionist.
Hosted by Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings, Ronald Reagan:)
Two words I haven’t heard in thirty years: Film Chain.
Over the years I worked with John Rich from time and he led me to
Believe that he was the only director.
Great stuff!
Narrated by Paul Frees.
This is absolutely amazing!
At 2:08 you can see where the cameraman filming this left the leather case for his Bell & Howell 70dr on top of the gear cases.
Found a great page from a camera operator from the Disneyland shoot. http://www.pharis-video.com/p5099.htm
Is this on YouTube?
Found some other pictures from the opening with the cameras. http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/07/getting-ready-for-disneyland-park-to-debut-a-look-back-at-july-17-1955/
Back when live TV engineering was really a new and difficult idea… Everything had tubes, no transistors!
My dad was the TD on that shoot!!
How do you access this to see it?
All those guys on lifts and man-buckets with no restraints at all? It was a different time for sure.
A true gem here!