December 31, 1955, “Your Hit Parade” With NBC Studio 8H Shots

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December 31, 1955, “Your Hit Parade” With NBC Studio 8H Shots

Starting at the 2 minute mark, the first number is sung by “the floor manager” with cast, crew and cameras everywhere in NBC’s Studio 8H, 61 years ago today.

I was surprised to see the cameraman on the Houston Fearless Panoram dolly spin the boom lift/lower wheel…he gave it a really good spin and even after he took his hand off, the boom kept going down as the wheel continued to spin. Even though I have a Panoram dolly, I never knew that the action was so free. as the action on mine is quite tight. Happy New Year! -Bobby Ellerbee

7 Comments

  1. Kafka Kafka March 4, 2017

    John Roger Bolin: No audience.

  2. Stan Warnow January 1, 2017

    Cool! Hot! Thanks! And there was an audience if I remember correctly, actually remember sitting in the audience seats, during rehearsal..

  3. Bob Hollis December 31, 2016

    Whadaya wanna do tonight, Marty? I dunno, Ang, maybe I’ll just stay home and watch the Hit Parade.

  4. Russell Ross December 31, 2016

    The dolly man looks like Jim Culley.

  5. Scott Pearson December 31, 2016

    Interesting that only 20 years later SNL would be broadcasting from 8H.

  6. John Roger Bolin December 31, 2016

    Since this was in 8H. Was there an audience in the studio?

  7. Tom Williamson December 31, 2016

    I remember watching The Hit Parade when I was a kid.