David Letterman…Last Monologue on NBC
This is classic! Wait till you see David and Paul ice skate! Enjoy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NnrXKxOHkw
The Last Episode of “Late Night with David Letterman”. Guests: Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen.
NBC Color Kinescopes Continued…Surprises & Rare Footage Yesterday, we discussed the RCA/Eastman Lenticular Color Kinescope process here, and from that we have gained more insight as well as two interesting new color kinescopes. First, a few surprises. Surprise 1. It seems that one reason there are so few early kinescopes left is because the unions […]
You Mean There Were Art Departments? Yes! Once upon a time, local stations and networks had real artists on staff. Before electronic and computer graphics came along, art departments made flip cards for promos, made title and closing credit cards, illustrated ticker crawls like the one in this photo and more. This picture is from […]
Election Night: 1952, The First Computer Assisted Predictions An Interesting Story…The computer was right but CBS balked At CBS, Charles Collingwood sits in the Univac set on election night of 1952. What you see here is just for show as the actual computer was an 8 ton beast the size of a single car garage […]
About six months ago, I met a character named Joe Maltz somehow. Turns out that in 1961, Joe was the Supervisor of Engineering Maintenance for ABC in New York and had a GREAT STORY to tell! In a nutshell, Joe was put in charge of developing a handheld camera that was better than the one […]