This was a January 1956 storm that hit the California coast with huge waves. The surfers may have loved it, but KTLA lost a camera covering the event…don’t know if it was this one or another, but this cameraman is about to get a big surprise. Thanks to David Zoning fro the pix. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
1926-2016…Celebrating 90 Years Of Talking Pictures Thanks to Western Electric’s Vitaphone technology, moving pictures with sound became a commercial success, but the story does not start with “The Jazz Singer”, and it doesn’t even start with the spoken word. Believe it or not, the very first sound with film efforts were thought of as a […]
CBS Television City: Art Linkletter’s House Party Here in Studio 41, Art is doing a last minute run through on a Maytag live spot in the background. In the foreground, the children from the interview segment are made comfortable with the studio’s activity. Behind this TK11 is the ‘school days’ set for the ‘Kids Say […]
To Sports Fans, This Set Should Look Familiar…CBS Studio 43 On Saturdays and Sundays during football season, this is ground zero for the CBS Television Network’s sports coverage. I make that distinction because next door, in Studio 44 is the CBS Sports Network cable channel’s headquarters set. This set in use year round for all […]
September 15, 1938…NBC Debuts TV’s First Live Remote Show On December 12, 1937, the world’s first electronic television remote units were delivered by RCA to NBC in New York City. The dual vehicle system, consisting two, 26 foot buses included one for production and one for transmission. The production bus provided two portable single-lens Iconoscope […]