Eric Shapiro’s Final Fade To Black As ‘CBS Evening News’ Director
Well done sir…well done! Hail and farewell.
“CBS Evening News” director ending 51-year CBS career at the top
Director Eric Shapiro started at CBS in 1963 as a mail boy, working his way up with legendary director Don Hewitt as his inspiration
History From A Different Angle…NBC Radio City West The street on the left is Sunset Boulevard and the next cross street is Vine Street. Less than a block behind the photographer is CBS Columbia Square and less than a block up on Vine Street was ABC’s broadcast center. This whole area was radio city! Someone […]
1939 Hollywood Tour…The Studios, Movies & People Making News The great “March Of Time” newsreel archives give us a look at Tinseltown as it was in July of 1939. The studio bosses are all here as are shots from the sets of “Gone With The Wind”, “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” and more! Everybody from […]
Who Knew? Zoomar Long Lenses Were Used In The Studio… The first example I ever saw of this was when I discovered some rare photos of ‘Kukla, Fran And Ollie’ being done at WNBQ in Chicago. That was the first time this was done and the lens inventor, Dr. Frank Back even paid a visit […]
Mystery Solved #2 I had thought the old pedestals used with the Iconoscope cameras in the 30s and 40s were perhaps hydrolac, but…not anymore. Thanks to further research by our friend Paul Beck, we now know these peds had an electric motor to take them up and down. In reexamining my archives, I came across […]