Another Magic Moment! The Photo AND The Video To Match!

On April 9, 2014 - TV History

Another Magic Moment! The Photo AND The Video To Match!

Just before the video clip, which will start at 6:44, there is a classic live Ajax commercial, complete with the “bubba buma bum bum” lyric many of us still remember. This beautiful color photo was taken during rehearsal of ‘The Photographer’ sketch on the March 23, 1952 ‘Colgate Comedy Hour’. It was live from NBC’s Radio City West studios at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood. Dean is a fashion photog and Jerry is an inept window washer.

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4 Comments

  1. João Antonio Franz April 10, 2014

    This pic is from the rehearsal… The clothes are not the same. There is lots of Martin and Lewis’ photos from the rehearsals, with another clothes, and also from not used sketches. 😀

  2. João Antonio Franz April 10, 2014

    Beautiful! <3

  3. Jarbas Jam Mesquita April 10, 2014

    Fantastic!!!!!

  4. John Butler April 9, 2014

    How much of the country could see it live in March of 1952? Did NBC have coast to coast live feed capability by then? Would the East Coast get it live and then the West on kinescope?