Happy Trails & Many Thanks To Bill Plante….
CBS News celebrates career of Bill Plante, retiring after 52 years
Plante covered many major stories of the past half century, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Vietnam War
If This Stage Could Talk…Studio 50, The Ed Sullivan Theater Ed Sullivan is center stage with ventriloquist Rickie Layne and Velvel at the Sunday afternoon rehearsal. In the background, Ed’s cameraman…George Moses with a TK11. I’m very happy that David Letterman is so appreciative of the theater’s history and has done such a great job […]
AT LAST! The Lone Ranger, Unmasked… If you were like me, you always wondered what Clayton Moore looked like without the famous Lone Ranger mask. Now we know. Source
ULTRA RARE: May 1949, Sid Caesar’s First Series ‘The Admiral Broadway Review’ Caesar began his television career when he made an appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater. In early 1949, Sid and producer Max Liebman met with Pat Weaver, president of television at NBC (and father of Sigourney Weaver), which led to Caesar’s appearance […]
For Vintage TV Props…”History For Hire” Is Ground Zero Our friend Richard Wirth has a new article I wanted to share with you, on the world famous History For Hire Prop House in Los Angeles. Vintage TV Studios in Modern Film and Television Aside from a dizzying selection of “other” period specific props, HFH is […]